Carl Gustav Ekqvist (, St. Petersburg)
A large Russian silver fish entree server, pierced and engraved. Carl Gustav Ekqvist, assayer Dmitri Ilich Tverskoi 1848, St. Petersburg town mark, 84 standard. Weight c. 162 g. L. 33 cm.
Provenance: The Danish Envoy and Consul General Hans Poul Hoffmeyer (1893–1962). Secretary of Legation in Vienna, Berlin, Moscow and Warzaw in the 1920s, later Counsellor of the Legation in Berlin, Paris, Turkey, Israel and Greece, and finally Consul General in Hamburg from 1954. Hoffmeyer's interest in collecting silver was pervasive and he acquired items in all the cities he lived. Thence by descent with residence in Denmark, until today.
Minimal wear due to age. Handle engraved with monogram.
Russian theme, 7 December 2020
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