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The coffee pot is part of the so-called Pleshcheev Service which arrived in Russia during the reign of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. It consisted of coffee and tea services and toilet articles. There is also a matching coffee pot with a silver, rather than wooden handle. Most of the items in this service were executed in the rococo style by Samuel Courtauld and P. Gillois in a refined and elegant manner. Sophisticated decorative elements serve to frame each object and subtly contrast with the undecorated, mirror-like surface. The service received its name after 1762, when, at the behest of Catherine II, all silver belonging to the Treasury and held in various locations was brought together in the Winter Palace, where it was assayed and entered the care of the Court Office. The Pleshcheev Service was delivered to the court by the junior officer Pleshcheev.
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