Russian Gilt Sugar Bowl with Floral Motif, St. Petersburg 1838

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Large sugar bowl, a Russian pumpkin shaped sugar bowl with gilt internals. Complete with lobed lid, applied leaf and flower finial, floral designed border edging, twin scrolled folate handles, six lobed type bowl with applied floral motif and an oval pedestal base with scrolled floral boundary. Stamped with 84 mark, makers mark Aleksander Kordes, assayer Dmitrii Ilbich Tverskoy St Petersburg 1838. Height: 14.5 cm. Weight: 671.8 grams

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Finial - An architectural decoration, found on the upper parts of of an object. On furniture they are usually found on pediments, canopies and shelf supports. On smaller ceramic or silver items, such as spoons, they may decorate the top of the item itself, or the lid or cover where they provide a useful handle for removal.

Finials have a variety of shapes and forms. They may be urn-shaped, baluster shaped round or spiral, but usually taper into an upper point. Many real life shapes may also be used as finials, such as pineapples, berries, pinecones, buds, lotus and acorns. Sometimes animals such as a lion are depicted, or fish and dolphins.