A SILVER-GILT CLOISONNE ENAMEL VODKA SET
MARKED WITH THE CYRILLIC INITIALS OF FEDOR RUCKERT, MOSCOW, 1896-1908

SALE 1024, 19 April 2002

Price Realized  $35,850

The flask baluster shaped, on stepped domed foot with varicolor floral scrolls with plain border enclosing green and translucent red zigzag band, the body with stylized blossoms and foliate scrolls on cream ground, the lower part similarly decorated on green ground, the upper part with similar blossoms on dark blue ground within a border of gilt scrolls on pale blue ground within a band of red, blue and green stylized leaves, the shaped neck with similar varicolored blossoms on cream ground, all with small roundels of translucent red, the detachable domed cover with similar flowers with bud finial, the six vodka cups on spreading feet with band of blue and green decoration within rope-work borders, the shaped bodies with stylized floral and foliate scrolls on cream ground within shaped reserves surrounded by gilt scrolls on pale blue ground, the shaped circular tray on three compressed ball feet with waved rims, decorated with stylized blossoms and scrolls on green ground, within further similar floral and foliate scrolls on cream ground within similar border on red ground, the central roundel surrounded by gilt scrolls on pale blue ground, each marked under basethe tray 10 3/8in. (26.5cm.) diam., the flask 12in. (30.5cm.) high, the cups 2 3/8in. (6cm.) high

Provenance
Christie's New York, The Greenfield Collection of Russian Enamels, 20 October 1998, lot 175