EXTREMELY RARE RUSSIAN SILVER-GILT AND SHADED ENAMEL PICTORIAL PUNCH BOWL AND I-ADLE

Автор
Fedor Ruckert, Moscow, circa 1910

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The bulbous body repousse in high relief with legendary bogatyrs and female portrait busts in the Old Russian style, and with Hying eagles encircling the base, the bogatyrs holding aloft mugs of frothing ale, all exquisitely enameled in a multitude of colors, the gilded ground with a matted finish, the shoulder of the bowl repousse with pear-shaped lobes each enameled with a flowering plant or vegetable, the rim enameled with black bears in snowy landscapes and with luminescent 'windows,' the handles in the form of bear's heads with eyes set with red stones, the ring foot enameled with stylized vegetable forms, gilded interior; the ladle enameled with colorful flowers on a gilded stippled ground and with a hook on the handle for resting in the punch bowl.