A pair of Russian 19th century silver champagne coolers, mark of Carl Johann Tegelsten, St. Petersburg 1842.

Carl Johann Tegelsten (1798-1852) – 19th-century Russian silversmith of Finnish descent. Since the 1830’s much of his work was retailed by the fashionable English Store, owned by the merchants Constantin Nicholls and William Plincke. A leading court silver and goldsmith, Tegelsten became famous for producing services and table wares in the neo-Rococo taste in preparation for the marriages of many members of the Romanov family.