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Enameled on three sides with a bearded robed male figure grasping a staff and seated beside a table and vessel, a lady with hands on hips standing before a faux bois wall hollow-cut with star and baluster spindles, and a lady offering a gentleman a glass from her tray, a loaf of bread upon the cloth-covered table in the background, each against a matte ground and beneath an arch worked in a pattern of brightly-colored diamonds above leaftips and flowerheads, and flanked by columns supported upon the heads of a pair of Imperial eagles, all within dense scrolling flowering vinery in pink, yellow, blue, green and brown on a pale yellow ground, the matching handles inset with blue “beaded” edges, the silver rim within rope-twist borders, the interior gilt, marked beneath base with the initials “F.R.” for the workmaster Feodor Ruckert in Cyrillic, and with the “88” standard mark.

Height 7 ѕ inches.

The German silversmith and enameler Feodor I. Ruckert worked in Moscow from the end of the nineteenth century until the Revolution of 1917. His objects reflect the stylistic influence of Russian designers and enamellers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He worked independently, and on contract with the firms and retailers of Karl Faberge, Paul Akimovich Ovchinnikov and Orest

Fedorovich Kurlyukov.

Literature: For additional information regarding the work of Feodor I. Ruckert including illustrations, see Marvin C. Ross, “The Art of Karl Faberge and his Contemporaries,” pp. 120-125.