Catalogue

Émile Louis Picault (1833–1915)
Le Devoir (Duty)
France, late 19th century
Patinated bronze, signed “E. Picault” on base, with stamp “Réduction Mécanique A. Collas”
Height: 77 cm
This finely cast bronze by Émile Louis Picault represents Le Devoir — “Duty” — a classical warrior symbolizing civic virtue, courage, and moral steadfastness. The figure stands poised, holding a sword, embodying the ideals of honor and devotion to one’s homeland. The work’s dynamic realism and noble restraint exemplify the heroic allegorical style that made Picault one of the most admired sculptors of the French Third Republic.

Cast with Picault’s characteristic attention to anatomy and drapery, the sculpture bears the mechanical reduction stamp of A. Collas, referring to Achille Collas’s innovative 19th-century process for creating precise scaled reductions of large bronzes.

Émile Louis Picault trained under the Dutch sculptor Louis Royer and exhibited extensively at the Paris Salon between 1863 and 1909. His works often depicted allegorical, patriotic, and mythological subjects — celebrating labor, honor, knowledge, and heroism.

Starting price: 4000€
Estimate: 5000-6000€
Hammer Price: UNSOLD€

Set for spices “Owls”. 84 silver, casting, chasing, gilding. Petersburg, beginning of the 20th century. Marked VI in cyrillic for Nikols and Plinke shop. Dimensions: 7 x 3.7 x 3.3 cm. Weight: 227.8 g

Starting price: 800€
Estimate: 1000-1200€

A Rare Russian bust of Emperor Alexander I. Author Ф. Kovshenkov. Russia , 1828 year. Dimensions: 19.5 x 8.5 x 8.5 cm.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3000€

A Rare Russian bust of Emperor Alexander I. Author Ф. Kovshenkov. Russia , 1828 year. Dimensions: 19.5 x 8.5 x 8.5 cm.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3000€

Evgeny Lanceray. Little Kyrgyz (or Bashkir Herdsman)
Model 1879
Bronze. Dimensions: 19 × 23 × 10 cm
St. Petersburg, late 19th century

This bronze composition by Evgeny Lanceray represents a mounted Bashkir herdsman, shown in dynamic motion, holding a lasso in his hand. The work belongs to Lanceray’s celebrated ethnographic series, inspired by his extensive travels across Russia and its borderlands.

The model was created in 1879 but reflects impressions from an earlier journey to Bashkiria in the early 1870s. Like many of Lanceray’s works, The Bashkir Herdsman combines vivid ethnographic detail with the sculptor’s gift for narrative and movement, making it one of his best-known works of small-scale realist sculpture.

During the sculptor’s lifetime and in the late 19th century, the composition was cast at the Chopin and Shtange foundries in St. Petersburg. In the early 20th century, it was also reproduced without foundry marks, both by large firms such as the Moscow workshop of A. M. Postnikov and by smaller private foundries in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Starting price: 1500€
Estimate: 2000-3000€
Hammer Price: UNSOLD€

Soviet silver cigarette case with an aeroplane. 875 silver standard, cast, gilding, cabochon. Maker’s mark “ХАЮС”, Moscow, 1927-1954. Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.5 cm. Weight: 177 g.

Starting price: 300€
Estimate: 300-450€

A Russian bronze bust of poet M. Yu. Lermontov. Brothers Vishnewski manufactory. Moscow, 1914 (?). Dimensions: 16 x 18 x 10 cm.

Starting price: 1500€
Estimate: 2000-3000€

A Russian bronze composition “Caucasian smoking”. Maker’s mark of E. Lancere, Chopin foundry mark. Petersburg, 1870s. Dimensions: 28 x 21.5 x 10 cm

Starting price: 8000€
Estimate: 10000-12000€

An Unusual Russian Karelian wood and enamel box. With enamel monogram HF in cyrillic on the lid. Makers sign ” A. L. Perestronin in Vyatka”. Silver – Petersburg, 1899-1908. Weight: 80.5 g. Dimensions: 10 x 6 x 4 cm.

Starting price: 1300€
Estimate: 1500-2000€

A pair of Russian bronze candlesticks “Lamplighters”. Author E. Naps. Petersburg, 1890s. Height: 24.5 cm.

Starting price: 1500€
Estimate: 2000-2500€

Dancing Peasant
Russian bronze composition
Mid-19th century
Height: 13 cm

This small bronze figure depicts a peasant caught mid-step in a lively dance, his posture animated and expressive. Works of this type reflected the 19th-century fascination with scenes from folk life, capturing the vitality and humor of rural traditions in miniature sculptural form.

Starting price: 500€
Estimate: 600-800€
Hammer Price: UNSOLD€

An unusual Russian silver and en plein enamel necklace-belt with a Peasants dancing scene. Vilno city, 1898-1908. Chain length: 270 cm. Pendant dimensions: 7 x 8.5 x 0.5 cm. Weight: 368 g.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3500€

A Russian bronze composition “Dancing peasant”. The mid of the 19th century.
Height: 13 cm.

Starting price: 500€
Estimate: 600-800€

A rare Russian bronze composition “A Bear tamer”. Maker’s mark of Vasiliy Grachev for Woerffel manufactory. Petersburg, the end of the 19th century. Dimensions: 28.5 x 40.5 x 16.5 cm.

Starting price: 30000€
Estimate: 35000-45000€

Empire style bronze-gilt travel clock with enamel dial and luminescent hands. France, 19th century. Roman numerals, enamel dial, luminous hands. Dimensions: 14.6 х 11 х 1.8 cm (without ear).

Starting price: 400€
Estimate: 400-450€

English silver and enamel cigarette case. Sterling silver, enamel. Maker’s mark of Samuel M. Levi, Birmingham, England, 1925. Dimensions: 9 x 8.3 cm. Weight: 121 g.

Starting price: 50€
Estimate: 50-100€

A miniature bronze sculpture depicting a wild boar, set on a stone base. The overall dimensions, including the stand, measure 15 x 10 cm.

Starting price: 100€
Estimate: 150-200€

An elegant Russian silver-gilt and engraving tea set in style “japonais”. Comprising teapot, creamer, sugar, sugar tongs, tea scoop, lemon fork, strainer and twelve teaspoons. In the Aesthetic Movement taste, flaring square form, finely chased motif of gold plated band-work, birds, insects and flowering branches, monogrammed. Makers mark of Peter Ambrosimov. Moscow, 1899-1908. Height of the pot: 14.5 cm. Total weight: 1683 g.

Starting price: 7500€
Estimate: 8000-10000€

Grand German military faience and silver beer jug. 1906-1908. Height: 23.5 cm.

Starting price: 600€
Estimate: 800-1200€

Séraphin Soudbinine. Bust of Alexander Petrovich Izvolsky
Patinated bronze on marble base
Signed and dated on the bronze: Soudbinine 1912
Dimensions: 16 x 10.5 x 10 cm.
Comparable cast: Musée d’Orsay, Paris (inv. no. JP 143 S, Buste d’homme)

This expressive bronze bust depicts Alexander Petrovich Izvolsky (1856–1919), a Russian statesman and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1906 to 1910 and later as Ambassador to France. The vigorous modeling and textured surface reflect Soudbinine’s transition from his early theatrical background to a mature sculptural language, marked by psychological depth and vitality.

Séraphin Soudbinine (born Serafim Nikolaevich Sudbinin) was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 1867. Originally an actor at the Moscow Art Theatre, he turned to sculpture after 1904, studying in Paris with Léon Bérard, Léopold-Sinaïeff Bernstein, and Jean-Antoine Injalbert. Supported by patron Savva Morozov, he quickly gained recognition for his portrait work.

Soudbinine’s sculptures were shown in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Paris, Berlin, Venice, and New York. He created portraits of prominent figures including Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Chaliapin, and Anna Pavlova. After the Russian Revolution, he remained in Paris, later working in ceramics. His works are held in major collections such as the Musée d’Orsay (Paris), the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), and the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow).

Soudbinine died in Paris in 1944.

Starting price: 10000€
Estimate: 12000-15000€
Hammer Price: 12000€