An important set of four silver-gilt and plique-à-jour beakers, Ovchinnikov, Moscow, 1899-1908

decorated with Japanese style scenes of swans swimming in ponds with waterlilies and flying swallows before a yellow sky, the rim of each beaker surrounded by a row of red enamel beading, struck to the upper rim of each beaker with maker's initials in Cyrillic beside the Imperial Warrant, 84 standard

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height of each 9cm; 3 1/2 in.