A RUSSIAN SILVER-MOUNTED CUT CRYSTAL PRESENTATION CENTERPIECE, KHLEBNIKOV, MOSCOW, 1908-1917 the centerpiece fashioned as a Viking ship with four paste-set stones, the prow formed as the head of a horse, the stern modelled as a steering oarman, the support applied with ten signatures of squadron officers: Volodya, Dr. Finne, Lavrov, Beilis, Pisenko, Neschenko, Fomagin, Ivanov, Mashkevich, Aemerik, the cut crystal body with star-form and gardrooned designs, marked with 84 standard, kokoshnik mark and maker's mark KHLEBNIKOV in Cyrillic with Imperial warrant for Ivan Khlebnikov; height: 25 cm (9 7/8 in.), length: 43 cm (16 7/8 in.), overall weight: 3750 g PROVENANCE Presented by the undersigned officers to Captain Michael I. Ussov (godfather to the father of the present owner), Kiev, November 1916 Thence by descent in the family