29 November 2021 | Live auction 20061
Russian Art
London
Lot 133
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, UNITED STATES
A CLOISONNÉ AND EN PLEIN ENAMEL SILVER DISH
BY PAVEL OVCHINNIKOV, MAKER FEODOR RÜCKERT, MOSCOW, 1899-1908
Price realised GBP 40,000
Estimate
GBP 20,000 – GBP 30,000
Of oval form, the dish well centring the wedding feast, inscribed in Russian ‘Honourable Feast’, surrounded by eight cartouches with alternating designs of eagles, deer and a boyar with a falcon on light pink and cream grounds, within wirework borders, all within varicolour scrolling foliage on a grey-blue ground, with two foliate enamelled handles, on four feet shaped as leaves with green enamel, marked under base with 'P. Ovchinnikov' in Cyrillic with the Imperial Warrant and the maker's initials of Feodor Rückert
15 3⁄8 in. (39 cm.) long
Provenance
Henry Penn Wenger (1927-1997).
Bequeathed by the above to the present owner.
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