MARKED K. FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 35702

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A SILVER-GILT CLOISONNÉ AND EN PLEIN ENAMEL BOX
MARKED K. FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 35702
Rectangular, the hinged cover centering an en plein enamel plaque depicting Departure of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich for the Hunt, after Victor Vasnetsov, enameled overall with floral and geometric motifs in shades of green, blue, purple and brown on green grounds, the lower border of the sides centering floral lunettes, marked under base
4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) long

Provenance

Acquired by the father of the present owner, 1970s-1980s.

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Lot Essay

Victor Vasnetsov (1848-1926) was one of the great Russian epic painters, whose depictions of historicist figures and events hold sway over the national imagination to this day. Many of his works were reproduced on Russian enamels in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Departure of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich for the Hunt, (1897), however, was seldom reproduced, and surviving examples are rare. The original watercolor is today in the collection of the Novosibirsk Region Picture Gallery, Russia.

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