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PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT COLLECTOR
A SILVER TROMPE L'OEIL BASKET, MONEY BOX AND FOUR NIELLO SNUFF BOXES
VARIOUS MARKERS AND DATES, RUSSIA, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Details
A SILVER TROMPE L'OEIL BASKET, MONEY BOX AND FOUR NIELLO SNUFF BOXES
VARIOUS MARKERS AND DATES, RUSSIA, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The basket, oval, cast and chased to simulate wickerwork, overlaid with a fringed cloth, inscribed 'James Dunnachie' under base, mark of Petr Loskutov, Moscow, 1884; the money box cast to simulate wickerwork, with loop handle and hinged lid, maker's mark Cyrillic 'AG'; four snuff boxes, all rectangular, one decorated with c-scrolls, shells and foliage, maker’s mark 'HM’, Moscow, 1844; the other, nielloed with two figures in a landscape, mark of Dimitry Kolesnikov, Moscow, 1821; two nielloed with the Alexander Column on Palace Square, St Petersburg, one with maker's mark Cyrillic 'PV', Moscow, 1856; the other, mark of Fedor Maksimov, Moscow, circa 1840s
The basket, 12¼ in. (31 cm.) wide
17 oz. (556.1 gr.) gross
VARIOUS MARKERS AND DATES, RUSSIA, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The basket, oval, cast and chased to simulate wickerwork, overlaid with a fringed cloth, inscribed 'James Dunnachie' under base, mark of Petr Loskutov, Moscow, 1884; the money box cast to simulate wickerwork, with loop handle and hinged lid, maker's mark Cyrillic 'AG'; four snuff boxes, all rectangular, one decorated with c-scrolls, shells and foliage, maker’s mark 'HM’, Moscow, 1844; the other, nielloed with two figures in a landscape, mark of Dimitry Kolesnikov, Moscow, 1821; two nielloed with the Alexander Column on Palace Square, St Petersburg, one with maker's mark Cyrillic 'PV', Moscow, 1856; the other, mark of Fedor Maksimov, Moscow, circa 1840s
The basket, 12¼ in. (31 cm.) wide
17 oz. (556.1 gr.) gross
Provenance
Three niello boxes: Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 12 May 1980, lots 81, 86, 99.
Property from an Important Private European Collection; Christie's, London, 3 June 2013, lot 254 (part).
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Property from an Important Private European Collection; Christie's, London, 3 June 2013, lot 254 (part).
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
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