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Materials:

silver and amethyst

Size Notes:

Weight c.856 gr

Description:

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Markings:

Engraved in Danish: 'A gift from H.M.Emperor Nicholas II of Russia to master builder'; marked with the Imperial Warrant as purveyor to the Imperial Russian Court

Provenance:

Master builder, manufacturer and craftsman Søren Frederiksen Schougaard (1852–1938), who received the kovsh as a gift in 1910 from Tsar Nicholas II of Russia during one of the his visits in Copenhagen. Søren Frederiksen Schougaard was master builder of the construction of the Russian Church in Bredgade, Copenhagen 1881–1883, and he also made a mosaic portrait of Zar Alexander III of Russia to the church. The kovsh is furthermore engraved in Danish: “It is my, Søren Schougaard and my wife, Agathe Schougaard's will, that this present remains in the Schougaard family in the nearest line after the inheritance law. Given to Sofia Schougaard July 5 1911. Sofia Schougaard was Søren and Agathe Schougaard's daughter. Thence by descents until today