MARKED WITH THE CYRILLIC INITIALS OF FEDOR RUCKERT, MOSCOW, 1896-1908,

Oblong, on spreading based with scroll and foliate decoration on blue ground, the front and back with scroll cartouches holding a swordsman on green ground flanked by stylized floral and foliate scrolls on pale blue ground, the ends with a stylized double-headed eagle flanked by the mythological bird Sirin with foliate scrolls on pale blue ground, the corners with shaped columns with stylized decoration, the hinged cover with a shaded enamel plaque of 'The Boyar Wedding Feast' after Konstantin Makovskii, within stylized foliate and palmate border, velvet interior, marked under base

10in. (25.3cm.) long

История продаж:
- Кристис 20 October 1998, THE GREENFIELD COLLECTION OF RUSSIAN ENAMELS, Lot 184.    Price Realized    $189,500