Shaped terminal with a twisted stem, the bowl with applied work scrolls and anthemia edged with two registers of white pellets, polychrome cloisonné enamel of foliate forms. The interior of bowl engraved with initials ALD in American style script. Marked to the handle with maker’s mark ИX. Length - 13.7 cm / 5.35 inches Weight - 44 grams / 1.41 oztNotes:Ivan Petrovich Khlebnikov (1819-81) worked in Saint Petersburg until 1867, founding a jewellery firm in Moscow in 1869/7. Supplier of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaievich from 1872, and Vladirmir Alexandrovich from 1877 and the imperial court from 1881. After Ivan’s death the business was taken over by his son’s Mikhail, Alexei, Nickolai and Vladimir. In 1882 they had 200 workers with an annual turnover of 300,000 roubles, located at Shvivaya Gorka, Moscow. Retailing from Kuznetsky Most and Ilyinka, Novgorodskoye. In 1918 the firm ceased trading and was nationalised.