Antip KUZMICHIEV (active 1856-1897), Double-necked sugar bowl with lid

sterling silver, hallmarked (probationary hallmark with the probie's initials in Cyrillic AP [A. Romanov], year 1885, sample 84 and city mark, goldsmith's monogram A.K. - in a rectangle);
height 12 cm; width 14.5 cm; diameter about 13 cm; weight 390 g.
Russia, Moscow,1885.
Sugar bowl on a circular plan, on a foot edged with pearlwork, bulbous, at the bottom and top decorated, framed by two rows of pearls, with strips of engraved stylized ornament, sequined at the bottom, geometric at the top, between them engraved geometric-plant ornament with two blind reserves for monograms; hinged lid, with engraved multi-leaf rosette, surmounted by a triangular openwork helm decorated with pearls; broken, granular lugs similarly decorated.