Kelch Gothic Revival silver service

The Kelch Gothic Revival silver service, created in 1900, was one of the finest silver services made by Peter Carl Fabergé. The silverware was commissioned by Alexander and Barbara Kelch (Russian: Кельх, Kelkh). Peter Carl Fabergé considered it the most important silver masterpiece made in his workshop; it was also the most expensive.

Kelch’s silverware is assumed to have been melted down circa 1918, following the October Revolution. For the next hundred years, experts of Fabergé had presumed that the tableware was completely destroyed. In 2017, it appeared that items from the service had survived, having been discovered in Poland.