Comprising a teapot, coffee pot, sugar bowl and cover, a milk jug and small tray, all decorated throughout in niello with architectural scenes and courting figures in rocaille surrounds, with ebonized wood finials and handles shaped as dragon heads, two pots marked under base with unrecorded maker's mark ‘S.I.K’, Moscow, 1779; the sugar bowl marked on rim with assay mark, second half 18th century; the tray, apparently unmarked, 18th century; the milk jug, marked under base with ‘K. Fabergé’ in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial warrant and workmaster’s initials
The coffee pot, 7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
50 oz. 10 dwt. (157.4 gr.) gross weight

With Hammer Galleries, New York.

Exhibition catalogue, Loan Exhibition of the Art of Peter Carl Fabergé, Imperial Court Jeweler, 1846 – 1920 at the Hammer Galleries, 1951, p. 42, no. 295 (listed).
A. K. Snowman, The Art of Carl Fabergé, London, 1962/64/72, pl. 98 (the milk jug by Fabergé illustrated).

Hammer Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition of the Art of Peter Carl Fabergé, Imperial Court Jeweler, 1846 – 1920 at the Hammer Galleries, 28 March – 28 April 1951, no. 295.

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This rare 18th-century silver and niello tea and coffee service was later completed with a milk jug made by Fabergé, circa 1900. The milk jug was made by Stephan Wäkevä, Fabergé’s silversmith who specialized in tableware, and was clearly designed to match the earlier set. Niello pieces by Fabergé are exceptionally rare, and the addition of the milk jug suggests it was a special commission intended to complete the 18th-century service.