Lot Essay
We are indebted to Dr Dimitri Gorchkoff for his assistance with this catalogue entry.
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A high-ranking Russian officer, wearing the sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian orders of St Anne (1st class) and of St Vladimir (3rd class) and the 1812 campaign medal
Details
Johann Renatus Lüderitz (b. c. 1780)
A high-ranking Russian officer, wearing the sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian orders of St Anne (1st class) and of St Vladimir (3rd class) and the 1812 campaign medal
signed 'Lüderiz pinx.' (mid-right)
on ivory
oval, 68 mm. high, gilt-metal frame
A high-ranking Russian officer, wearing the sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian orders of St Anne (1st class) and of St Vladimir (3rd class) and the 1812 campaign medal
signed 'Lüderiz pinx.' (mid-right)
on ivory
oval, 68 mm. high, gilt-metal frame
Provenance
Sotheby's, Parke Bernet, Zurich, 24 November 1978, lot 187 (as 'A Russian Officer').
Special notice
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