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Spoon with Images of Fish

before 1873

The Walters Art Museum

The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States

On the spoon's bowl, two blue, red, turquoise and white fish, in pierced plique-à-jour enamel, swim among bulrushes. The fish on the reverse are speckled and hover in the water above the sand. Water eddies are suggested by parallel lines of filigree on grey enamel. The handle is twisted and terminates in a filigree-enameled section and a finial.

Grachev incorporated a similar fish into a plique-à-jour teacup, saucer, and spoon, which were exhibited in Munich in 1986/87.

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  • Title: Spoon with Images of Fish
  • Creator: Gavril Petrovich Grachev
  • Date Created: before 1873
  • External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
  • Roles: Artist: Gavril Petrovich Grachev
  • Provenance: Russian Sale, Sotheby's, New York, December 6, 1994, Lot 260; purchased by Jean M. Riddell (Leo Kaplan as agent), Washington, D.C., December 8, 1994; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2010.
  • Object Type: spoons
  • Medium: silver gilding, filigree and plique-à-jour enamel
  • Inscriptions: [Symbols] crossed anchors and scepter; [Mark] In Cyrillic: GR
  • Dimensions: L: 7 5/16 x W: 2 3/8 in. (18.5 x 6 cm)
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Jean M. Riddell, 2010
  • Classification: Enamels
  • Accession Number: 44.969
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