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European Decorative Arts and Sculpture

Sugar Bowl

Made in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Asia

1852

Carl Johan Tegelsten, Finnish (active St. Petersburg), 1798 - 1852

Gilded silver, ivory
4 1/2 x 8 9/16 x 6 inches (11.4 x 21.7 x 15.2 cm)

* Gallery 151, European Art 1850-1900, first floor (Annenberg Galleries; Colket Gallery)

1963-186-8

Gift of Mrs. Eugenia Clair Smith, 1963

Label

This sugar bowl is part of an impressive service made for the third son of Czar Nicholas I of Russia, the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich. His initials and arms are engraved on the silver pieces. Decorated with naturalistic branches and flowers applied over curving forms, the set evokes the elaborate Rococo Revival style that reached its height at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London and remained popular in England as well as France and Russia until the 1870s.

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