An exceptional Russian .875 silver trompe l'oeil bread basket, by Mikhail Ovchinnikov, Moscow 1876, of heavy gauge oval form, with basket weave effect and embellished with a fringed brocade cloth, flanked by a pair of rope twist handles and raised on wirework feet, crisply hallmarked underside with maker's marks in Cyrillic, 6.5 cm high, 38 cm wide, 26 cm deep, 1025gms