Lot Description
A SILVER-GILT AND CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL COFFEE SERVICE
MARKED K. FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, WITH THE MAKER’S MARK OF FEODOR RÜCKERT, MOSCOW, 1908-1917

Comprising a coffee-pot, a sugar bowl and a milk-jug, each on slightly tapering circular foot, enamelled overall with geometric motifs and stylised cockerels in shades of olive green, gray, brown, red, and blue, the coffee-pot and sugar bowl with hinged covers, surmounted with ball finials, the coffee-pot with mother-of-pearl insulators, the interior gilt, fully marked, also with import marks
The coffee-pot 9½ in. (24 cm.) high

Provenance
Sir William Seeds, K.C.M.G. (1882-1973), H.M. Ambassador to Moscow from 1939-40.
By descent to his grand-daughter.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY OF A LADY