Soup-tureen with a lid.
Moscow, 1770
Silver, gilt, embossing, casting.
30,5 x 43,5 x 21,7 cm.
GIM 51336 OK 5454

A soup-tureen from a service of Count Bobrinsky.

Tableware of the second half of the 18th century had splendid forms, stylish chased relief decoration on a rich gilt background. These silver platter and soup-tureen are very typical samples of rococo style in Russian art of the second half of the 18th century. According to rocaille aesthetics orbed forms and refined ornament in the form of large chased flowers on the gracefully bent flexible stalks with leaves, bunches of fruits, acanthus leaves, and birds are typical for Moscow goldsmiths and silversmiths of the 1770s as artworks of a new style, of new culture of everyday life.

In the period of flourishing of nobiliary monarchy Tsar's Court, high nobility, and representatives of various layers of aristocracy and merchants were the main commissioners of expensive jewels.

Count Bobrinsky. This family began with Alexey Grigoryevich Bobrinsky (born April 11, 1762). This fact is confirmed in a letter from April 2, 1781 written by the hand of Empress Catherine the Great and conserved at the family archive of Count Bobrinsky. Empress gave the Bobrinsky family the title of Count and the arms.