A SILVER-GILT CLOISONNE ENAMEL PENCIL-HOLDER
MARKED WITH THE CYRILLIC INITIALS OF FEDOR RUCKERT, MOSCOW, 1896-1908
SALE 1024,
19 April 2002
Important Silver, Objects of Vertu and Russian Works of Art
Lot 261
Price Realized $21,510
Of oval section, the spreading foot with a band of stylized varicolor flowerheads and foliate sprays on dark green ground, the body with shaped rim with a Russian man and woman in traditional costume amid floral and foliate sprays on blue and pale green ground, the scroll handles incorporating a blossom and foliate spray, marked under base
5јin. (13.4cm.) high
Provenance
Christie's New York, The Greenfield Collection of Russian Enamels, 20 October 1998, lot 182