26.05.2026

A Russian business card case and stamp dispenser, with the monogram “FM”.
 Warsaw, Russian Empire, firm of Israel Szekman, 1908–1917.
Silver, gilding. 
Dimensions: 3.5 × 6.0 × 6.0 cm. Weight: 95 g.
Marks: maker’s mark “W.K.”; firm’s stamp “I. SZEKMAN”; Warsaw assay mark for 1908–1917.

A compact, architecturally shaped table accessory formed as a closed, two-tier box: the upper compartment intended for post stamps, while the lower, forward-sloping bay functions as an accessible dispenser for visiting cards.
Israel Szekman was among the leading Warsaw silversmith-entrepreneurs of the late 19th to early 20th century. He opened a shop in 1886 specialising in applied metal fittings, and in 1891 established a factory producing plated and silver objects. By the mid-1890s the workforce numbered about twenty, later fluctuating between ten and twenty. By 1914 the factory’s output included silver and metal goods, among them lamps and shades. Around 1919 the firm’s management appears to have passed within the family, later to Szekman’s sons and, by the late 1920s, to the brothers Berish and Zyskind Szekman.

Starting price: 500€
Estimate: 600-700€
Hammer Price: €

Trompe-l’oeil Snuff Box in the Form of a Little Book with a Niello View of the Moscow Kremlin
Moscow, master “IA”, 1883.
Silver, niello, gilding, engraving.
Size: 5.5 × 9.4 × 2.5 cm. Weight: 119 g.
Marks: maker’s mark “IA”; Moscow assay mark, 84 zolotnik silver standard.
A finely executed silver snuff box designed in the trompe-l’oeil manner as a small antique book, its compact rectangular form ingeniously articulated with a curved spine and gilt “page” edges. The cover is centred with a carefully engraved and nielloed panoramic view of the Moscow Kremlin, enclosed within a scalloped cartouche and set against a richly textured ground imitating woven ornament.
The reverse is decorated with an elaborate ornamental panel in the Pan-Slavic taste, further enriching the object’s historicising character.

Starting price: 1300€
Estimate: 1500-1700€
Hammer Price: €

Faberge. Cigarette case in Art-nouveau style
Silver, gold, chasing, gilding, sapphire and rubies. Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.7 x 2 cm. Total weight: 149 g. Inventory number 14041
Makers mark of «K. Faberge» with Imperial warrant and scratched inventory number 14041. Moscow, 1899-1908.
Rectangular silver cigarette case with rounded corners, decorated in the Art Nouveau style. The lid is adorned with flowing linear ornament in relief, resembling stylised plant forms, and set with small ruby cabochon stones in star-shaped casts. The clasp with gold rim is mounted with a cabochon sapphire.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3500€
Hammer Price: €

A Russian silver-gilt nécesaire. 
St Petersburg, 1908–1917.
Silver, gilding; guilloché translucent enamel; chasing and engraving. Weight: 118 g, Dimensions: 1,5 x 4,9 x 10,2 cm.
Marks: maker’s of Ivan Brytzin; St Petersburg assay marks (1908–1917).
A rectangular, palm-sized nécesaire with two compartments. One face is covered with a pale, white opal toned translucent enamel laid over a finely turned wavy guilloché ground.
The reverse is treated in deliberate contrast: a silver-gilt field worked in the so-called “samorodok” manner.
Ivan Savelyevich Brytzin (1870–1952), a former employee of Fabergé in St Petersburg, qualified as a master goldsmith in 1903 and soon opened his own workshop “Russkaya Emal” (Malaya Konyushennaya ul., 12). His firm granted a gold medal at the St Petersburg Crafts Exhibition in 1909, and in 1910–1917 he supplied works to members of the Imperial family and to the Cabinet of His Majesty. Brytzin’s objects bears steady demand on the English market; he also worked with stone and purpurin and collaborated with A. Sumin. After 1917 he continued to practise, though documentation of his later activity is fragmentary.

Starting price: 3500€
Estimate: 4000-5000€
Hammer Price: €

A Rare Russian Silver Ashtray Commemorating the War of 1914.
Moscow, firm of Karl Fabergé, 1914.
Silver; repoussé, chasing, engraving.
Dimensions: 3.2 x 11 x 11 cm. Weight: 145.7 g.
Marks: Fabergé firm mark and Imperial court supplier warrant; Moscow assay mark; 88 zolotniki silver standard.
The circular silver ashtray is of shallow bowl form. The centre is decorated in relief with the Russian Imperial double-headed eagle, crowned and displayed with outstretched wings, holding the sceptre and orb. Around the emblem is the commemorative inscription in Cyrillic: «ВОЙНА 1914 г.»
This rare object belongs to the distinctive group of wartime production made by the firm of Karl Fabergé during the First World War. With the outbreak of hostilities in 1914 and the decline in demand for luxury jewellery, Fabergé redirected part of its production toward practical and commemorative objects connected with the army and the front. These included field utensils, mugs, samovars, washstands, cigarette cases, cup-holders and presentation ashtrays.
Objects of this type were often made in copper or more modest metals, bearing the Imperial arms and inscriptions such as “War 1914” or “War 1914-1915.” Silver examples are considerably rarer. Despite their utilitarian function and wartime context, they retain the refinement, clarity of design and technical precision characteristic of Fabergé production.
Such pieces were sometimes presented to soldiers and officers of the active army, including during visits of Emperor Nicholas II to the theatre of war.

Starting price: 8000€
Estimate: 10000-12000€
Hammer Price: €

A Russian cast silver set of tableware stands in the form of rifles, presented as a shooting prize from the 85th Imperial Vyborg Infantry Regiment. Maker’s mark of V. Gordon firm, St. Petersburg, 1899–1904.

Dimensions: Length 10.6 cm
Total weight: 392 g

Vladimir Gordon was a well-known St. Petersburg jeweler whose shop on the Zerkalnaya Line of Gostiny Dvor was widely recognized at the turn of the 20th century. His firm was admired for the richness and variety of its production and enjoyed a solid reputation among the city’s clientele.

Starting price: 1500€
Estimate: 2000-2500€
Hammer Price: €

An Elegant Russian Art Nouveau Silver-Gilt and Cut-Glass Decanter.
Moscow, maker’s mark “ФМ” in Cyrillic, 1899-1908.
Silver-gilt, cut glass; repoussé, chasing, engraving, gilding, glass cutting.
Height: 27 cm.
Marks: maker’s mark “ФМ” in Cyrillic; Moscow assay mark, 84 zolotniki silver standard.
The decanter is of tall tapering form, with a clear cut-glass body and applied silver-gilt mount to the neck, spout and hinged cover. The lower part of the glass body is decorated with deep diamond cutting and radiating fan motifs.
The silver mount is designed in the Art Nouveau taste, with a continuous relief ornament of sinuous stems, leaves and stylised flowers.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3500€
Hammer Price: €

A Pair of Fabergé Silver-Gilt and Cut-Glass Decanters
Moscow, maker’s mark of K. Linke for the Fabergé firm, 1889.
Silver-gilt, cut glass; casting, chasing, repoussé, engraving.
Height: 24.5 cm each.
Marks: Fabergé firm mark and Imperial court supplier warrant, maker’s mark of K. Linke; Moscow assay marks; 84 zolotniki silver standard; date mark for 1889.
This impressive pair of decanters is made in the neo-Rococo taste, uniting richly modelled silver mounts with finely cut glass bodies. Each vessel is of elegant pear-shaped form, rising from a spreading domed foot and surmounted by a high asymmetrical neck with scroll handle and hinged cover. The glass bodies are decorated with dense wheel-cut ornament, while the silver-gilt mounts are lavishly chased with scrolling foliage, rocailles and floral sprays, creating a dynamic surface of great decorative richness.
The decanters are marked for K. Linke, that is Konstantin Linke, whose family workshop took an important place among the Moscow suppliers of the Fabergé firm. The history of this family enterprise began with Maria Linke, who registered her own silver workshop in 1866 and received the right to use a personal maker’s mark. By 1889 the workshop already employed a substantial number of craftsmen and maintained close ties with Fabergé. In 1894 the business passed formally to her son Konstantin Linke, who had qualified as a master silversmith in 1883. Works from the Linke workshop were retailed not only by Fabergé, but also by other prominent jewellers, including the firm of Bolin.

Starting price: 30000€
Estimate: 35000-40000€
Hammer Price: €

Russian Silver-Mounted Glass Tankard with a Dog

Elegant cut-glass tankard of cylindrical form, fitted with a silver hinged lid surmounted by a finely modeled recumbent dog finial. The handle is mounted with a decorative thumbpiece and the silver mounts bear 84 zolotnik standard marks, indicating Russian silver. A charming and unusual late Imperial Russian drinking vessel, combining substantial faceted glass with expressive animal-form silverwork.

Condition:
Good overall antique condition with wear, scratches, and tarnish to the silver mounts consistent with age and use. Small chip at the base of the handle. Minor expected wear to the glass.

Height: 17.5 cm

Material:
Glass, silver-mounted

Starting price: 1000€
Estimate: 1200-1500€
Hammer Price: €

Pair of Sterling-Mounted Decanters Made for Tiffany & Co., New York

Elegant pair of clear glass decanters in pierced sterling silver sleeves, the undersides stamped STERLING and MADE FOR TIFFANY & CO NEW YORK, each fitted with a silver-mounted stopper. The stoppers are engraved “Rye” and “Scotch”, with matching engraved initials to the tops. A refined and highly decorative bar set, likely American, early 20th century.

Condition:
Good overall antique condition with surface wear, light scratches, and tarnish to the silver. Minor wear and discoloration to the corks consistent with age and use. Glass with expected wear from handling.

Height: 31.5 cm (including stoppers)

Material:
Glass, sterling silver

Notes:
Marked STERLING and MADE FOR TIFFANY & CO NEW YORK. Monogrammed stoppers engraved “Rye” and “Scotch.”

Starting price: 2500€
Estimate: 3000-3500€
Hammer Price: €

Crystal Vase

Bakhmetyev Glass Factory, Nikolskoye-Pestrovka, Penza Province, Russia
Mid 19th century

Cut crystal
Height: 19.3 cm
Diameter: 24 cm

A finely cut crystal vase of classical form with a rounded bowl and wide rim, raised on a faceted pedestal foot. The body is decorated with an intricate diamond-cut pattern, characteristic of the refined design of the Bakhmetyev Glass Factory.

The factory was founded in 1764 by Alexei Ivanovich Bakhmetyev, a retired officer who received imperial permission from Empress Catherine the Great to establish glass production in Nikolskoye-Pestrovka, Penza Province. The enterprise remained under the Bakhmetyev family until 1884, becoming one of the most distinguished glassworks in Russia.

During the 19th century, the factory produced both luxurious crystal pieces for the aristocracy and the Imperial Court—as well as finely made, affordable glassware for wider use. Its works were noted for exceptional quality and artistic engraving, often decorated with gilding, enamel, or filigree.

By the 1830s, the Bakhmetyev factory had reached its artistic peak and was recognized as a Supplier to the Imperial Court, granted the right to mark its products with the State Coat of Arms (1836).

Starting price: 250€
Estimate: 300-350€
Hammer Price: €

A fine crystal, silver and plique-à-jour enamel snuff box, the cut crystal body surmounted by an ornate silver lid with polychrome floral enamel decoration in blue, green, red and white. Russia, the end of the 19th century.
Dimensions: 4 × 5.5 × 5.5 cm.

Starting price: 200€
Estimate: 300-400€
Hammer Price: €

A Russian cut-glass ice bucket with gilt-bronze handle
Russia, Maltsov manufactory. Late 19th century.
Cut glass, gilt bronze; wheel-cut, faceted and polished glass; cast and chased mount. Dimensions: Height with open handle 18 cm. Diameter: 14 x 13 cm.
A compact and finely proportioned ice bucket formed of clear glass with a slightly flared cylindrical body set on a low circular foot. The surface is richly enlivened by bands of geometric cut ornament: a central frieze of alternating “russian diamonds” and triangular motifs, bordered by finely cross-hatched zones and delicate starbursts, while the underside is finished with a radiating cut rosette. The restrained brilliance of the cut glass is set off by an elegant swing handle in gilt bronze, the terminals cast in the form of vine leafs.
Such vessels were intended for the formal dining table as accompaniment of wine and champagne serving. Founded in the 18th century, the Maltsov factories developed into one of the largest glass and crystal manufacturing networks in Imperial Russia. Originating with works established by Vasily Maltsov in the 1730s-1740s, the enterprise was expanded by subsequent generations, notably at Gus-Khrustalny and Dyatkovo. In the 19th century, the Dyatkovo Crystal Factory became one of the leading glassworks in the country. After financial difficulties and reorganization in the late 19th century, the Maltsov industrial complex continued under a joint-stock company until its nationalization in 1918.

Starting price: 2500€
Estimate: 3000-4000€
Hammer Price: €

Imperial Glass Manufactory. Glass with Stand and Cover
after a design by A. Barmin
Russia, St Petersburg, 1820.
Gilt bronze, mirror.
Blown glass, cutting in the Russkii kamen’ manner, casting, gilding. Dimensions: 14,5 x 16 x 12,5 cm.
A cylindrical covered glass in finely cut crystal, mounted in an elaborate gilt-bronze stand with integral undertray. Executed after a design by A. Barmin, the piece belongs to the refined early Empire production of the Imperial Glass Manufactory, where architectonic clarity of form was joined to the brilliance of Russian cut crystal and the elegance of gilt-metal mounts.
The vessel is decorated in the so-called “Russian stone” manner, a type of deep geometric cutting intended to imitate the faceted richness and sculptural play of hardstone carving. The crystal body is enlivened by a dense network of intersecting cuts, diamonds, and reserved circular lenses, which catch and refract light with exceptional vividness.
The gilt-bronze mount enhances the ceremonial character of the object. The domed cover is enriched with radiating palm leafs ornament and bordered by a finely chased band; the scrolling snake handle and applied lion’s feet supports are cast with delicacy and precision. See simeilar item in State Hermitage museum collection: https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/digital-collection/35948?lng=ru

Starting price: 6000€
Estimate: 7000-9000€
Hammer Price: €

Imperial Glass Manufactory. Beaker with Stand and Cover
St Petersburg, 1830s. Dimensions:15 x 16,5 x 12,5 cm.
Amethyst glass, gilt bronze; cutting, casting, gilding; painted in gold and silver.
A cylindrical beaker of deep amethyst, or manganese, glass, mounted in an elaborate gilt-bronze stand with matching cover. The upper zone of the vessel is decorated with scrolling foliate cartouches executed in gold and silver enamel-like painting, while the lower part is articulated by broad vertical flutes (pilasters).
The gilt-bronze mount is conceived in the spirit of refined historicism and empire style.
Amethyst glass had long been esteemed for its rich, noble color. In nineteenth-century practice, its violet tonality was associated with the use of manganese, which, depending on concentration and firing conditions, could produce shades ranging from light lilac to an intense, almost black purple. In this example, the glassmaker achieved a particularly dense and velvety hue, further enriched by the brilliance of the gilded and silvered painted ornament.
Both by material refinement and by the sophistication of its mount, the piece belongs to the category of highly finished decorative glass intended for aristocratic interiors or for presentation use. Comparable works are preserved in major Russian museum collections, including the State Hermitage Museum and the State Historical Museum in Moscow.

Starting price: 5000€
Estimate: 6000-8000€
Hammer Price: €

Imperial Glass Manufactory. Glass with Stand and Cover
Russia, St Petersburg, 1820.
Colourless crystal, mirror, gilt bronze.
Blown glass, cut in the peacock feather pattern, casting, gilding.
Dimensions: 15 × 21 × 15 cm.
A covered glass with stand, executed in colourless crystal and mounted in gilt bronze, is a refined example of early nineteenth-century production at the Imperial Glass Manufactory. The vessel is set within an elegant circular frame above a mirrored base and accompanied by a richly modeled handle, the whole conceived as a luxurious table object in the Empire taste.
The crystal body is cut in the so-called “peacock feather” pattern, a decorative system in which elongated oval and eye-shaped motifs create a fluid, iridescent play of light across the surface. The lower part of the vessel rises from a faceted foot.
The gilt-bronze mounting is particularly elaborate. The stand rests on three finely cast lions feet and encloses a mirrored plateau that enhances the brilliance of the crystal by multiplying its reflections. The curving handle, cast in the form of a stylized serpent, introduces a dynamic sculptural accent and reflects the Empire fascination with antique and exotic ornamental vocabularies. The domed lid is enriched with radiating floral vine amd clusters ornament and delicate beaded detailing, completing the object with a note of ceremonial richness.
Comparable works are preserved in major Russian museum collections, including the State Hermitage Museum and the State Historical Museum in Moscow.

Starting price: 5000€
Estimate: 6000-8000€
Hammer Price: €

A Rare Russian Cameo Glass Vase “Forest Landscape”
Imperial Glass Manufactory, St Petersburg, 1915
Multi-layer glass, acid-etched, carved.
Height: 23 cm. Diameter: 27 cm.
Marked on the underside NII in cyrillic and dated 1915,
A substantial spherical vase on a low spreading foot, conceived as a continuous forest panorama. The body is worked in layered glass of warm amber and reddish-brown tones, over which a dark silhouetted landscape has been etched: serrated fir trees, overhanging pine branches, boulders, reeds, and gently rippling water.
The piece belongs to the artistic vocabulary of Russian Art Nouveau, where glass became a medium of exceptional atmospheric power. Its decorative program is built not on isolated ornament, but on an immersive landscape image unfolding around the entire circumference of the vessel. This continuous treatment of surface, together with the nuanced play of translucency and matte engraving, gives the vase a distinctly painterly character. In the production of the Imperial Glass Manufactory, landscape motifs are comparatively uncommon, which makes this example especially noteworthy.
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Art Nouveau glass drew on a wide range of sources, from medieval and classical art to folk traditions, but was especially shaped by the growing fascination with the Far East after the Paris World Exhibition, where Japanese decorative art had a profound impact. This influence encouraged an associative, image-based approach to design, in which color and ornament carried symbolic and emotional meaning.
Glass proved an ideal medium for Art Nouveau because of its rich chromatic range, luminosity, translucency, and painterly effects. These qualities gave works an organic, impressionistic expressiveness and made multi-layered cameo glass one of the most powerful vehicles of the new style in Europe and Russia alike.
The Imperial Glass Manufactory produced a remarkably varied range of Art Nouveau objects, characterized by flowing forms, curved ornament, and motifs drawn from nature. Landscape subjects, however, remained extremely rare and are known mainly from the first decade of the 20th century.

Starting price: 15000€
Estimate: 17000-22000€
Hammer Price: €

Imperial Glass Manufactory. Glass Beaker with the Scene “Dance before the Sultan”
Lithographic Workshop of Terebenev. St Petersburg, 1840s-1850s.
Amethyst glass, transfer-printed decoration, gilding.
Dimensions: 7.5 x 6.8 x 6.8 cm.
A rare amethyst glass beaker decorated with a figural literary scene known as “Dance before the Sultan,” illustrating an episode from Byron’s Don Juan. The cylindrical body is enriched on one side with a transfer-printed composition showing an orientalist feast scene with seated and standing figures in theatrical costume, while the reverse is adorned with a gilt floral spray scattered across the deep violet ground.
The decoration was executed in the technique of decalcomania, or transfer printing, introduced into Russian glassmaking in the 1830s and 1840s. In this process, a lithographed image printed in silicate pigments was first transferred onto paper, then applied to the glass surface and fired, so that the paper burned away and the image remained permanently fixed. This method made it possible to reproduce complex figural and narrative compositions with a degree of precision previously difficult to achieve in glass decoration.
The beaker is associated with the lithographic workshop of K. I. Terebenev and P. P. Semechkin, whose work played an important role in the development of printed decoration on Russian porcelain, faience, and glass. Their workshop specialized in combining lithographed imagery with painted gilding and ornamental embellishment, drawing on literary, allegorical, landscape, and historical subjects, as well as reproductions after European masters. Contemporary critics valued the technique for both its artistic refinement and its capacity to bring complex pictorial sources into the sphere of decorative art.
A comparable example is published in O. M. Polyashova, Russian Glass of the 18th to Early 20th Century, p. 161.

Starting price: 4000€
Estimate: 5000-7000€
Hammer Price: €

Russian Imperial Glasswork. Glass Beaker with the Scene “Dance before the Sultan”
Lithographic Workshop of Terebenev. St Petersburg, 1840s-1850s.
Cobalt-blue glass with gilt rim and lithographed decoration over glaze, gilding.
Dimensions: 8,2 x 7,2 x 7,2 cm
A cobalt-blue glass beaker decorated with a figural literary scene known as “Dance before the Sultan,” illustrating an episode from Byron’s Don Juan. The cylindrical body is enriched on one side with a transfer-printed composition showing an orientalist feast scene with seated and standing figures in theatrical costume.
The decoration was executed in the technique of decalcomania, or transfer printing, introduced into Russian glassmaking in the 1830s and 1840s. In this process, a lithographed image printed in silicate pigments was first transferred onto paper, then applied to the glass surface and fired, so that the paper burned away and the image remained permanently fixed. This method made it possible to reproduce complex figural and narrative compositions with a degree of precision previously difficult to achieve in glass decoration.
The beaker is associated with the lithographic workshop of K. I. Terebenev and P. P. Semechkin, whose work played an important role in the development of printed decoration on Russian porcelain, faience, and glass. Their workshop specialized in combining lithographed imagery with painted gilding and ornamental embellishment, drawing on literary, allegorical, landscape, and historical subjects, as well as reproductions after European masters. Contemporary critics valued the technique for both its artistic refinement and its capacity to bring complex pictorial sources into the sphere of decorative art.
A comparable example is published in O. M. Polyashova, Russian Glass of the 18th to Early 20th Century, p. 161.

Starting price: 3500€
Estimate: 4000-5000€
Hammer Price: €

Imperial Glass Manufactory. Glass with a Portrait of Empress Maria Alexandrovna

Imperial glass manufactory. Glass with a portrait of Empress Maria Alexandrovna. 
Workshop of P. P. Semechkin and K. I. Terebenev. Petersburg, 1840s
Amethyst-colored glass with gilt rim and lithographed decoration over the glaze.
Dimensions: 8,5 x 7,2 x 7 cm,

This glass is a vivid example of the production of the renowned St. Petersburg workshop of P. P. Semechkin and K. I. Terebenev, which specialized in decorating glass, porcelain, and faience with lithographed images combined with gilded and silver-painted floral and ornamental motifs. Among the most favored subjects were portraits of members of the Imperial family.
The decoration features a rare portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna (1824–1880; from 1855, Empress of Russia). The image is based on a lithograph executed in 1841 by R. F. Dragunov to commemorate the marriage of Grand Duke Alexander Nikolaevich (the future Emperor Alexander II) to Princess Maximiliane Wilhelmine Augusta Sophia Maria of Hesse-Darmstadt, baptized into Orthodoxy as Maria Alexandrovna.

Starting price: 4500€
Estimate: 5000-6000€
Hammer Price: €