In France for €321,000 sold the service daughter of Nicholas I

The tea and coffee service, owned by Princess Olga Nikolaevna, daughter of Emperor Nicholas I, was sold at Aguttes auction in French Neuilly-sur-Seine for €321,000. Initially, the lot was estimated at €40-80 thousand, and the final price was more than four times higher than the upper limit of the estimate, follows from the lot card on the auction house website.

The service was made in 1840 in St. Petersburg by masters Karl Tegelsten and Henrik Lang for the jewelry company Nicholls & Plincke, which supplied products to the imperial court. The set consists of eight items, including a monumental samovar 57 cm high, a coffee pot, a teapot, a sugar bowl, a milkman and a large oval tray. The total weight of gold-plated silver products of the 875th sample is almost 20 kg.

The objects are decorated with plant ornaments, garlands of fruits, images of chimeras and a double-headed eagle, and the handles are made in the form of winged figures of Psyche. According to the auction house, the service was ordered in preparation for the dowry of the Grand Duchess for the wedding with the Crown Prince of Württemberg Karl in 1846.

The head of the department of furniture and works of art Aguttes Gregoire de Touri noted that the special value of the lot gives the preservation of almost a complete set.

“The re-opening of this service is, above all, the opening of a new chapter in the family history of Tsar Nicholas I,” de Turi said

A few days ago at Sotheby's auction, in the framework of the auction Royal and Noble Jewels ("Royal and aristocratic jewels"), was sold sapphire from the collection of the Imperial House of Romanov. The total value of the lot was $ 4.9 million, which is more than double its initial estimate.