A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED PAPIER-MACHÉ RED LACQUER BOX

THE BOX BY THE NIKOLAI LUKUTIN FACTORY, 1881-1894, THE MOUNTS MARKED WITH CYRILLIC INITIALS OF CARL FABERGÉ, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890

Details

A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED PAPIER-MACHÉ RED LACQUER BOX
the box by the Nikolai Lukutin Factory, 1881-1894, the mounts marked with Cyrillic initials of Carl Fabergé, Moscow, circa 1890
Oblong with curved ends, the hinged cover applied with silver-gilt foliate scrolls with stylized fish and birds, the sides with foliate scrolls, red interior, the box marked inside cover, mounts marked on lower right scroll on cover
5½in. (14.3cm.) long

Literature

M.Y. Ghosn, Objets de Vertu par Fabergé, (Paris, 1996), no.1.

Lot Essay

For a similar Lukutin box with Fabergé mounts see M. Kopplin, Russische Lackkunst aus zwei Jahrhunderten, Münster, 1995, no.95, pl.21; and H. Hawley, Fabergé and his Contemporaries: The India Minshall Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, (Cleveland Ohio, 1967), p.116.