拍品 37
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A GEMSET SILVER INKWELL MODELLED AS 'THE HEAD' FROM RUSLAN AND LIUDMILA
A GEMSET SILVER INKWELL MODELLED AS 'THE HEAD' FROM RUSLAN AND LIUDMILA

MARKED FABERG WITH IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1896-1908

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A GEMSET SILVER INKWELL MODELLED AS 'THE HEAD' FROM RUSLAN AND LIUDMILA
marked Faberg with Imperial warrant, Moscow, 1896-1908
Realistically modelled as the head of a bogatyr, the hinged helmet revealing a silver-gilt inkwell, the ear-pieces set with cabochon stones, on rectangular red marbel base, fully marked
6in. (16.5cm.) high

拍品专文

In the poem by Aleksandr Pushkin, later set to music by Glinka, Liudmila is kidnapped and Ruslan sets forth to seek her. In the steppes 'The Head' emerges from the ground of a battlefield and tells him that she is being held by the wizard Chernomor.