• The Manolo March Collection Fr auction at Christies

    Sale 7817

    The Manolo March Collection From Son Galcerán, Mallorca

    London

    |

    28 - 29 October 2009

    Browse Sale
Previous Lot
Search
Next Lot
    • Christies auction image unavailable
    Lot 434

    A Russian jewelled gold-mounted karelian birch-wood cigar-case

    RUSSIA, CIRCA 1900

    Price realised

    GBP 2,000

    Estimate

    GBP 1,000 - GBP 1,500

    Follow lot
    Add to Interests

    A Russian jewelled gold-mounted karelian birch-wood cigar-case
    Russia, circa 1900
    Rectangular, with rounded corners, the cover applied with the entwined monogram Cyrillic PP under a coronet and further embellished with a sapphire-set Imperial double-headed eagle, rose-diamond thumb-piece, the interior with four compartments, apparently unmarked
    5 in. (13 cm.) long

    Provenance

    Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 11 June 1998, lot 698.

    Contact us

    • Contact Client Service

      info@christies.com

      New York +1 212 636 2000

      London +44 (0)20 7839 9060

      infoasia@christies.com

      Asia +852 2760 1766

    • Flora Elek

      felek@christies.com

      +44 (0)20 7389 2622

    • Orlando Rock

      orock@christies.com

      +44 (0)20 7389 2622

    Other information

    Special Notice

    No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.


    Recommended features

      • A leap into space: Malevich’s
      • A leap into space: Malevich’s Suprematist Composition

        Offered in May, a 1916 canvas that was included in every major survey of Malevich’s Suprematist works during his lifetime, and which revolutionised modern art

      • The road to Suprematism — Kazi
      • The road to Suprematism — Kazimir Malevich’s Landscape

        This monumental, square-format work is a major highlight of Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on 20 June in London

      • German Expressionism: An essen
      • German Expressionism: An essential guide

        The early 20th-century movement that featured Heckel, Kandinsky and Klee, and which continues to influence artists working today

      • Collecting Guide: 7 things to
      • Collecting Guide: 7 things to know about Chinese traditional painting

        Specialist Elizabeth Hammer on why age-old themes, materials and techniques continue to flourish among artists and collectors

      • Discover the Hong Kong Spring
      • Discover the Hong Kong Spring Auctions 2018

        Christie's Hong Kong Spring Auctions sale series brings together masterworks across Chinese works of art and paintings, Asian 20th-century and contemporary art and jewels, watches, wine and handbags

      • Collecting Guide: Lalique
      • Collecting Guide: Lalique

        Specialist Joy McCall answers key questions for collectors of the glassmaker’s exquisite pieces. Illustrated with lots offered in the Lalique sale on 15 May

Share
Email
Copy link
Share
Email
Copy link