Spoon with Images of Fish

before 1873

6 cm 18.5 cm

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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...

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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.
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