Antique Large Silver Imperial Russian Cloisonne Spoon Alexi Kitovsky Moscow 1886 Drawings & Prints The purse with the maker's

The purse with the maker's mark in Cyrillic and the assayer's mark for Ivan Lebedkin Sergeyevich (active 1898-1914)

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Antique Large Silver Imperial Russian Cloisonne Spoon Alexi Kitovsky Moscow 1886 Drawings & Prints The purse with the maker'sAntique Imperial Russian large silver gilt cloisonne spoon by Alexi Fyodorovich Kitovsky, Moscow, 1886. The spoon with a tapered stem and having a crown shaped finial with blue & white enamel decoration, the rest of the stem with two light and dark blue enamel cuffs. The bowl of the spoon is large (7cm x 4. 25 cm) & has a gold wash, the rear of the spoon is finely decorated with a gold ground and having both floral & geometric cloisonne decoration,