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A pair of Russian partiel silver-gilt double salt cellars, cast with rocailles, flowers and foliage, each with two shields engraved with respectively Cyrillic monogram for Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia and the Russian Warrant. Samuel Arndt, assayer Alexander Nikolajevich Mitin 1857 and Eduard Fedorovich Brandenburg 1857, St. Petersburg town mark, 84 standard, scratched inventory no. 30651. Weight c. 614 gr. H. 10 cm. L. 16 cm. (2).
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia (1819–1876) was daughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. She first married Duke Maximilian of Leuchtenberg (1817–1852) and later in 1854 she married Count Gregori Stroganov (1824–1879). Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna became grandmother to Prince Peter of Oldenburg (1868–1924), married to Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882–1960).
Condition report on request.
Russian + varia & furniture, 2 June 2016
Not sold