Property from an important German collection
A FABERGÉ SILVER-GILT CLOISONNÉ AND PICTORIAL ENAMEL STAMP BOX, MOSCOW, 1908-1917
Auction Closed
November 26, 06:32 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from an important German collection
A FABERGÉ SILVER-GILT CLOISONNÉ AND PICTORIAL ENAMEL STAMP BOX, MOSCOW, 1908-1917
almost certainly by Feodor Rückert, the raised lid enamelled en plein with Knight at the Crossroads after Viktor Vastentsov, the sides with flying and seated owls against a ground of Pan Slavic ornaments enamelled in earth tones, struck on the base and inside lid with K.Fabergé in Cyrillic, 88 standard
width 7.5cm, 2⅞in.
Sotheby's Geneva, 17 November 1998, lot 331.
Vasnetsov's iconic large scale painting from 1882, after which the present box was enamelled, is a highlight of the Russian Museum collection in Saint Petersburg. For another example of a box marked Fabergé, incorporating Vasnetsov's painting with gryphon and swan motifs, please see A. Odom, Russian Enamels: Kievan Rus to Fabergé, London, 1996, p. 163, no. 98. A similar example enamelled on a cigarette case by Rückert for Fabergé, is held in the collection of the Fabergé Museum in St Petersburg (V. Voronchenko et. al., Fabergé: Treasures of Imperial Russia, Fabergé Museum, St Petersburg, New York, 2017, p. 263).