# Pavel Ovchinnikov artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/pavel-ovchinnikov/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:27:07.433Z
Quality: low confidence, insufficient sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Silver, Enamel, including cloisonné decoration

## About Pavel Ovchinnikov

The identity behind this Pavel Ovchinnikov auction directory remains unresolved. The strongest authority records collected for the name describe Pavel Nikolaevich Ovchinnikov, a Russian botanist who lived from 1903 to 1979; they do not establish an artist or decorative-arts career. Meanwhile, collected museum-object imagery associates Pavel A. Ovchinnikov and the Ovchinnikov firm with Moscow silver and enamel objects dated 1883 and 1887. Those dates precede the botanist’s birth, demonstrating that the records concern different people or entities. Until a reliable museum, estate, scholarly, or library source identifies the intended maker, Appraisily should not assign the botanist’s dates, nationality, occupation, or authority identifiers to this artist page. Collectors may encounter the Ovchinnikov name in connection with Russian decorative objects, especially silver vessels with enamel decoration, but individual authorship and firm attribution must be verified from marks, dates, documentation, and object-level evidence.

## Common works and media

The source pack supports only a provisional decorative-arts context. Its object candidates show silver beakers or vessels, including an 1883 silver beaker with cloisonné decoration and an 1887 silver-and-enamel beaker on a stand attributed to the Ovchinnikov firm. These records suggest that silver vessels and enamelled decorative objects may appear under the name in auction or appraisal data. They do not, however, establish a complete body of work for the page entity. Any object should be described from its own materials, form, marks, date, place of production, and supporting documentation rather than attributed from the name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Market interpretation requires identity resolution before price records can be compared. The collected object candidates include Moscow silver and enamel beakers dated 1883 and 1887, variously associated with Pavel A. Ovchinnikov or the Ovchinnikov firm. For appraisal purposes, the exact maker or firm attribution, marks, production date, materials, enamel technique, dimensions, condition, restoration history, and provenance should be documented. Comparable sales should then be limited to genuinely similar objects with consistent attribution and dating. Results attached only through the shared Ovchinnikov name may combine unrelated makers, firms, or the twentieth-century botanist and therefore should not be treated as a coherent market history or as support for a price prediction.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Here, identity and market records must remain provisional until the namesake entities are reliably separated.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3372959
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/163128232/
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Ovtchinnikov_(botaniste)
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beaker_with_cloisonne_decoration,_Pavel_A._Ovchinnikov,_Moscow,_1883,_silver_-_Fowler_Museum_-_University_of_California,_Los_Angeles_-_DSC02531.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ovchinnikov_beaker_on_a_stand_1887_(2).jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ovchinnikov_beaker_on_a_stand_1887_(1).jpg