A Russian Pan-Slavic Pictorial En Plein and Cloisonné Enameled Silver Pill Box. Fabergé, Feodor Rückert marks ...

Description

A Russian Pan-Slavic Pictorial En Plein and Cloisonné Enameled Silver Pill Box
Fabergé, Feodor Rückert marks overstruck, Moscow 1908-1917, with scratched inventory number 32655
2-1/8 x 0-1/2 inches (5.4 x 1.3 cm)
68 grams

PROVENANCE:
An important California private collection;
John Atzbach Antiques, Bellevue, Washington, acquired from the above;
Acquired from the above by the present owner.


A Fabergé hinged circular pillbox of identical construction is attributed to Rückert in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, The India Early Minshall Collection, Inv. No. 1966.466. Another enamel box with near consecutive inventory no. 32653 was with Wartski, London, in July of 2008.

Heritage Auctions is grateful to Anna and Vincent Palmade for their assistance with research on this lot.

Masterpieces of Russian Enamel from an Important American Collection

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