RUSSIAN WORKS OF ART, FABERGÉ & ICONS
07 JUNE 2016 | 3:00 PM BST
LONDON
Lot 464
Estimate 80,000 — 120,000 GBP
A Fabergé silver-gilt and pictorial enamel box, probably workmaster Feodor Rückert, Moscow, 1912-1917
the lid with a central cartouche painted en plein after Klavdy Lebedev's Voevoda (1912), the border and sides with subtly shaded polychrome enamel geometric and foliate motifs on green and blue grounds, with cloison coils and dripped overlay, struck K.Fabergé in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial Warrant, 88 standard, scratched inventory number 40004
width 7.8cm, 3in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby's Olympia, 23 May 2002, lot 75
CATALOGUE NOTE
Voevoda is an archaic term for the 16th century governor of a Russian province with military authority. Lebedev's original work, a watercolour on paper, entered the collection of the Dnipropetrovsk Art Museum, Ukraine.
Лот продан за 93 750 фунтов