Coffee service, After a painting by Pietro Rotari, 1773
Coffee service, 1773, Russian, Saint Petersburg, Silver, parcel gilt, enamel, wood, Metalwork-Silver In Combination, After a painting by Pietro Rotari (Italian, Verona 1707–1762 St. Petersburg), The service is thought to have been given by Empress Catherine II to Count Pyotr Rumiantsev, governor of the Ukraine and leader of the victorious Russian forces in the war with Turkey (1768–74
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