SALE 1024, 19 April 2002
Important Silver, Objects of Vertu and Russian Works of Art

Lot 269

 

Oblong, the front depicting the King of Clubs and the back with the Queen of Hearts in regional costumes on white ground within stylized varicolor floral and foliate scrolls, the sides and rim of hinged cover with similar scrolls, on blue ground, the top of the cover with a roundel with a club sign with pellets on yellow ground surrounded by floral and foliate scrolls with a papakha, sword and knife on white ground, marked inside cover and under base
3ѕin. (9.5cm.) high

Provenance
Christie's New York, The Greenfield Collection of Russian Enamels, 20 October 1998, lot 164

Lot Notes
The scratched inventory number probably indicates that this case was retailed by Faberge.