An antique Russian silver tray,

of octagonal form with rasied edge, a crane engraved centrally with a frog in its beak
amongst bamboo stems, a spider’s web to its right with trapped insects within. 

Signed AP,  possibly for Andrej Michaijlowitsch Postnikow.
St. Petersburg, 1892.  

Exhibited:

Japonisme: from Falize to Fabergé, the Goldsmith and Japan,
Wartski, 2011, number 171.

£10, 500