Sale: N08718
Location: New York
04 Nov 2010

LOT 30

A RUSSIAN GILDED SILVER AND SHADED ENAMEL GEM-SET BIRD-FORM KOVSH, FEODOR RÜCKERT, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1900

40,000—60,000 USD

Measurements
length 10 3/4 in.

Alternate measurements
27.3 cm

Description

of bird form with a long beak, the body decorated with stylized, finely painted multicolored blooms and foliage against a cream ground and a blue border with square reserves outlined in applied wires, also set with colored hardstones, the head and lower tail decorated with geometric patterns in muted tones with accents of black, the beak and spreading tail with floral forms, the eyes and tail also set with hardstones en cabochon, raised on ring foot the maker's mark partially obscured by an engraved initial

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES
For a very similar kovsh by Rückert in the Greenfield Collection, see Christie's, New York, October 20, 1988, lot 183.