RUSSIAN WORKS OF ART, FABERGÉ & ICONS
07 JUNE 2016 | 3:00 PM BST
LONDON
Lot 465
Estimate 60,000 — 80,000 GBP
A Fabergé silver-gilt and pictorial enamel box, probably workmaster Feodor Rückert, Moscow, 1908-1917
the lid with a central reserve painted en plein after Konstantin Trutovsky's Round Dance in the Kursk Governorate (1860), the border with shaded enamel exotic birds, cloison coils and geometric motifs on a blue-flecked rust-coloured ground, the sides with stylised foliage, with dripped overlay, struck K.Fabergé in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial Warrant, 88 standard, scratched inventory number 26465, in original wood box
width 7cm, 2 3/4 in.
CATALOGUE NOTE
The painted view is a loose and simplified adaptation of Trutovsky's original work, which is now in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.