A PAIR OF SILVER-GILT CLOISONNÉ AND EN PLEIN ENAMEL SALT THRONES

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The following works highlight an impressive selection of enamel and silver offered from an Important Swiss Collector. Including silver and enamelled works by such leading masters as Fabergé, Rückert, and Ovchinnikov this collection embodies the 'Russian Style’ and importance of the bread and salt ceremony in the second half of the nineteenth century. Decorated with proverbs relating to the home, family, friendship and fertility, these elaborately designed salt thrones were traditionally given to celebrate weddings and successful business relationships. Intricately enamelled and nielloed spoons in the collection further epitomise the Russian decorative tradition from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. Unseen on the market since the 1980s, this carefully curated collection of salt thrones and spoons epitomises the art of fashionable table decoration in noble and wealthy Russian homes from 1870 to 1917. PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT SWISS COLLECTOR

A PAIR OF SILVER-GILT CLOISONNÉ AND EN PLEIN ENAMEL SALT THRONES

MARK OF FEODOR RÜCKERT, MOSCOW, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBERS 29926 AND 29927

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A PAIR OF SILVER-GILT CLOISONNÉ AND EN PLEIN ENAMEL SALT THRONES
MARK OF FEODOR RÜCKERT, MOSCOW, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBERS 29926 AND 29927
Of traditional form, on slightly spreading base with four bracket feet, enamelled overall with scrolling foliage and geometric motifs in shades of green, orange brown, grey, pink and purple on blue and pale green grounds, the shaped zigzag back enamelled with alkonosts at the front and on reverse, the pointed raised sides with ball finials with blue beads, marked inside cover and under base
2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) high

Provenance

The Greenfield Collection; Christie’s, New York, 20 October 1998, lot 177.
Acquired at the above sale by the father of the present owner.

Special notice

These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer’s Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.

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