A silver-mounted cut-glass centrepiece, maker's mark Cyrillic IChA, Moscow, 1908-1917

round, with alternating rounded and pointed scalloped edges, applied with a figurative silver mount of a man holding a flat string instrument with one hand and waving with the other, inscribed on the reverse of the mount 'To our dearest Maria Nikolaevna, a very kind person, with a beautiful soul, from dearly loving Kalmiys', struck with maker's initials in Cyrillic, 84 standard

diameter across mount 35cm; 13 3/4 in.