Lot Details
Lot 144
Louis XV Silver Plate from the Orloff Service
Edme-Pierre Balzac, Paris, circa 1770
Circular with a molded rim, centering an engraved Russian double-headed eagle, the reverse engraved and stamped with inventory number 40, further struck with St. Petersburg assay marks for 1784, assaymaster Nikifor Moschalkin. Diameter 12 3/4 inches (32.4 cm.), approximately 37.25 ounces (1,159 grams).
Provenance:
Empress Catherine II of Russia (1729-1796).
Count Gregory Orloff (1734-1783), after 1772.
Re-acquired by Catherine the Great in 1784, then by descent in the Imperial Collection to Emperor Nicholas II (1868-1918), until 1917.
The Soviet Government, until the mid-1920s.
With S.J. Phillips, London; purchased by the family of the present owner December 2001.
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