RUSSIAN WORKS OF ART
Sale: L10116 | Location: London
Auction Dates: Session 1: Wed, 01 Dec 10 2:00 PM
LOT 482
8,000—12,000 GBP
A FABERGÉ SILVER AND ENAMEL BOX, WORKMASTER FEODOR RÜCKERT, MOSCOW, 1908-1917
the lid painted en plein with a harvesting farm girl within cloisonné enamel geometric and amorphic motifs in autumnal tones and cloison coils, the sides with blue roundels enclosing and interspersed with turquoise triangles, wave scroll border, struck K.Fabergé in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial Warrant, apparently overstriking workmaster's initials, 88 standard, scratched inventory number 25075
Measurements
width: 5.6cm, 2 1/8 in.
CATALOGUE NOTE
For comparison, see the Rückert box illustrated, G. von Habsburg and M. Lopato, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller, 1993, p. 113, and that which sold, Sotheby's New York, 18 June 1979, lot 356