INDISTINCTLY MARKED, PROBABLY FEODOR RUCKERT, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1900, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 605

A Silver-Gilt and Cloisonne Enamel Three-Handled Cup

30,000 - 40,000 U.S. dollars

Of baluster shape, the lower part with lobed cartouches enclosing swans and stylized varicolor floral and foliate sprays and flowerheads on pale blue, cream, green, red and dark blue ground with twisted ropework borders, the upper part with stylized varicolor floral and foliate scrolls on cream ground, the gilt rim with twisted ropework borders, the stylized handles with floral and foliate scrolls on cream ground, marked under base5 in. (12.8 cm.)

The scratched inventory number probably indicates that this cup was retailed by Faberge. A nearly identical cup, marked Feodor Ruckert was sold Sotheby's New York. April 26, 2006, lot 247. For another related cup, see Christie's, New York, the Greenfield Collection of Enamels, Oct. 20, 1998, lot 212.