Работы Рюккерта, проданные на аукционе Кристис
1999 - 2001 года
A SILVER-GILT CLOISONNE ENAMEL BOX
MARKED WITH THE CYRILLIC INITIALS OF FEDOR RUCKERT, MOSCOW, 1908-1917
SALE 9508,
23 October 2000
Important Silver, Objects of Vertu and Russian Works of Art
Lot 87
Price Realized $12,925
MARKED WITH THE CYRILLIC INITIALS OF FEDOR RUCKERT, MOSCOW, 1908-1917
SALE 9508,
23 October 2000
Important Silver, Objects of Vertu and Russian Works of Art
Lot 87
Price Realized $12,925
Oblong with rounded corners, the sides overall decorated with gilt scrolls on green ground with stylized roosters, the upper half with cartouches enclosing alternating varicolored foliage and geometric design on gilt ground, the raised hinge cover depicting the mythical bird Sirin on gilt within gilt scrolls and Pan-Slavic geometric design, fully marked2Ѕin. (6.4cm.) long
Lot Notes
In the old Russian fables and epics Sirin appears in her usual form of a bird with a woman's head and breast; she is based on the ancient Greek Sirens.