SIX SILVER-GILT AND SHADED CLOISONNE ENAMEL SALT-CELLARS AND SPOONS
MARKED WITH THE CYRILLIC INITIALS OF FEDOR RUCKERT, OVERSTRUCK WITH THE MARKS OF FABERGE WITH IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1908-1917, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 32111
SALE 9508, 23
October 2000 Important Silver,
Objects of Vertu and Russian Works of Art
Lot 40
Price Realized $14,100
Each salt-cellar with circular raised gilt foot and circular compressed body, decorated with varicolored Pan-Slavic motifs on purple, green and dark blue ground, each spoon with flaring terminals and similar decoration, fully marked, in original silk fitted case, the inside stamped in Russian, 'K. Faberge Moscow St. Petersburg Kiev Odessa Nijni-Novgor[od] London' surmounted by the Imperial Warrant
Pre-Lot Text
Property of Dr. and Mrs. John Hashim
Provenance
Wartski, London, 3 August 1972