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An unusual French gold, an enamel and sapphire flask in the shape of a knight’s helmet. 19th century. Height: 9.5 cm.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2000-2500€

Farewell of a Cossack and a Cossack Woman
Ural, Kasli Iron Foundry, after a model by Evgeny Lanceray (1848–1886)
Cast iron, casting, painting
Dated 1901 (Tsarist period)
Height: 21.5 cm; base length: 18 cm

This sculptural composition depicts a poignant farewell scene: a Cossack, seated on horseback with a rifle in a case slung over his back, embraces his wife who rises toward his stirrup. The subject reflects the traditional role of the Cossacks, a privileged military estate in the Russian Empire from the 18th to early 20th centuries, who served as a stronghold of autocracy and were often mobilized in wartime.

The model was created by Evgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray in 1878, inspired by his impressions of the Don Cossack Host. The Kasli Iron Foundry, one of Russia’s most renowned centers of artistic iron casting, reproduced this piece in the early 20th century, as evidenced by the factory marks preserved on the underside and base.

Evgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray (1848–1886)
A Russian sculptor and animalier, Lanceray was an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a master of small-scale narrative sculpture. His works, often centered on historical, ethnographic, folkloric, and everyday themes, brought international recognition to Russian sculpture. He participated in numerous World’s Fairs and created not only bronze figures and groups but also decorative and applied art objects. His compositions were cast at all the leading foundries of his time, including Chopin, Shtange, Moran, Berto, and the Ural iron foundries.

Starting price: 500€
Estimate: 700-800€
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Russian brass-gilt advertising cigar box. The end of the 19th century. Dimensions: 18 x 11 x 8 cm.

Starting price: 150€
Estimate: 150-250€

A Russian bronze desk pen stand in the shape of a horseshoe. Russia, 19th century. Dimensions: 2.9 x 14 x 13.5 cm.

Starting price: 80€
Estimate: 100-150€

An Unusual Russian silver candy bowl in the shape of broken egg with cast silver figure of a chick on the top. Marked Grachev Brothers in cyrillic with Imperial warrant. Petersburg, 1899-1908. Dimensions: 12 x 13 x 8,4 cm. Weight: 342,2 g.

Starting price: 2500€
Estimate: 3000-5000€

A very rare Russian bronze composition “Tsar Ioann the Terrible and his Falconers”. Maker’s mark of Vasiliy Grachev for Woerffel manufactory. Petersburg, the end of the 19th century. See similar was sold on RUSSIAN ART VOLUME III
28 April 2006, Sotheby’s, New York, for 250000 USD. Dimensions: 36 x 48 x 28.5 cm.

Starting price: 75000€
Estimate: 80000-120000€

Bust of Emperor Alexander I
Russian Empire, St. Petersburg, 1827
Author: Fedor Ivanovich Kovshenkov (1785–1850)
Bronze, casting, patination
Dimensions: 19.5 x 8.5 x 8.5 cm.

This finely executed bust of Emperor Alexander I was created by Fedor Kovshenkov, a master bronzeworker who had once been a serf. In 1822, the Emperor himself recognized Kovshenkov’s talent and freed him from serfdom, appointing him as a bronze master during the construction of the Kazan Cathedral.

In 1826, as an expression of gratitude, Kovshenkov produced his first bust of Alexander I, and he returned to this theme multiple times throughout his career. Several examples in bronze and cast iron are preserved today in the State Russian Museum, alongside his busts of Emperor Nicholas I and Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich. A comparable piece is held in the State Literary-Memorial and Natural Museum-Reserve of Alexander Pushkin “Boldino” in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

Fedor Ivanovich Kovshenkov (1785–1850)
Originally a serf, Kovshenkov’s exceptional skill in bronze chasing brought him to the attention of Emperor Alexander I, who liberated him. He went on to create portrait busts of members of the imperial family and other distinguished figures, establishing his reputation within the St. Petersburg artistic milieu of the first half of the 19th century.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3000€
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Russian cut-crystal and silver-gilt “neoclassical” style carafe in the shape of a flask. Petersburg, 1908-1917. Height: 21 cm.

Starting price: 1500€
Estimate: 1500-2500€

A Russian Art-nouveau style cut-crystal and silver-gilt carafe. Makers mark of M. Tarasov. Moscow, 1908-1907. Height: 28 cm.

Starting price: 2500€
Estimate: 2500-3500€

A Russian silver-gilt cigar box with factory view. Bearing later Estonian dedication sign “Kaasametnikelt 1925-1935”. Maker’s mark of Ivan Tarabrov manufactory. Moscow, 1908-1917. Weight: 469 g. Dimensions: 5.5 x 17 x 11.4 cm.

Starting price: 3500€
Estimate: 4000-5000€

Paul Dubois (1829–1905)
“Le Courage Militaire” (Military Courage)
France, circa 1880
Patinated bronze, signed “F. Barbedienne, Fondeur”
Height: 38 cm

This exceptional bronze, cast by the renowned Barbedienne Foundry, represents “Le Courage Militaire” (Military Courage) — one of the four allegorical figures created by Paul Dubois for the cenotaph of General Juchault de La Moricière in the Cathedral of Nantes.

Depicted as a seated Roman warrior, the figure embodies noble restraint and strength through a masterful synthesis of naturalism and classical idealization. The serene dignity of the soldier’s pose and the finely rendered drapery are hallmarks of Dubois’s distinctive “Neo-Florentine” style, blending Renaissance influence with French academic sculpture of the 19th century.

Paul Dubois, both a sculptor and painter, studied in Rome and gained prominence with his Saint John the Baptist (1861), exhibited at the Paris Salon. His refined, spiritual approach to allegorical subjects earned him widespread acclaim, including médaille d’honneur at the Salon des Beaux-Arts in 1865 and 1876.

Dubois’s works — including Military Courage, Faith, Charity, and Meditation — are represented in leading French institutions such as the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée Camille Claudel in Nogent-sur-Seine

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3000€
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Russian silver and guilloche enamel snuff box. G. Wigstrem workshop. Petersburg, 1908-1917. Dimensions: 40 x 11 mm.

Starting price: 200€
Estimate: 500-600€

A Russian commemorative cast silver ashtray “Squadron Battleship Nikolay I”. Russian battleship Emperor Nikolay I or “IKI” was a flagship of the 3rd Pacific Squadron during famous Tsusima battle. Marked Morozov in cyrillic with Imperial Warrant. Makers mark of Eduard Kourtman. Petersburg, 1899-1908. Dimensions: 8.4 x 12 x 1 cm. 175.2 cm.

Starting price: 3000€
Estimate: 3500-5000€

An impressive Faberge silver-gilt cigar box with a double lid. Moscow, 1908-1917. Scratched inventory number 210?. Weight: 1547 g. Dimension: 11.3 x 22 x 15.2 cm.

Starting price: 30000€
Estimate: 35000-40000€

Émile Louis Picault (1833–1915)
The Fencer (Le Tireur)
France, late 19th century
Patinated bronze, signed “E. Picault”
Height: 72 cm

An exceptional bronze sculpture by Émile Louis Picault, one of France’s most prolific and celebrated 19th-century sculptors. The Fencer (Le Tireur) depicts a duelist captured in a moment of poised triumph, raising his sword aloft in salute or victory. The figure’s dynamic anatomy, tense musculature, and richly modeled costume reflect Picault’s masterful balance between Neoclassical idealism and the Romantic fascination with heroism and individuality.

The bronze is finished in a deep brown patina with superb surface detailing. Foundry marks confirm its 19th-century origin. This composition belongs to Picault’s series of martial and allegorical works, which celebrate discipline, courage, and the dignity of human effort — recurring themes throughout his oeuvre.

Émile Louis Picault studied under Louis Royer and exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon from 1863 to 1909. His works, numbering over five hundred models, are represented in museum collections including Chambéry, Clermont-Ferrand, Maubeuge, and Troyes.

Starting price: 1500€
Estimate: 2000-2500€
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Russian Imperial shooting prize in the shape of a kettle-drum with pistols as a base. With engraved of the St. Andrews order, portraits of Russian Emperor Nicholas I, his wife Alexandra Fedorovna and son – prince Alexander Nikolayevich. Engravings made by the original John Dow paintings dates 1826. Silver, Warsaw. 1830s. Master: Karol Malch. Dimensions: 17 x 19 x 10,5 cm. Weight: 388 g.

Starting price: 6000€
Estimate: 7000-9000€

A Russian wood composition ” Cossack on a horse”. Author A. Hanikov. Danzig (now Gdansk). Poland as a part of a Russian empire. The end of the 19th century. Dimensions: 21.5 x 16 x 7 cm.

Starting price: 400€
Estimate: 500-700€

An interesting silver-gilt and champleve enamel ashtray. Makers mark of Radke. Minsk, 1894. Weight: 150.6 g. Diameter: 11 cm.

Starting price: 500€
Estimate: 600-800€

A Russian cut-crystal and silver-gilt carafe in neoclassical style. Makers mark of I. Khlebnikov manufactory. Moscow, 1908-1917. Height: 30 cm.

Starting price: 5000€
Estimate: 5000-7000€

A Russian Female Bust from the Composition How Beautiful, How Fresh Were the Roses… VLADIMIR BEKLEMISHEV (1861-1920)
Bronze, cast and patinated; mounted on a shaped square base. Height with a stand: 24 cm.
After the model by Vladimir Beklemishev, late 19th to early 20th century.
Signed in Cyrillic on the reverse: V. Beklemishev.
A sensitively modeled bronze bust of a young woman, shown with her head slightly inclined and her gaze lifted in an expression of quiet reverie. Her softly parted lips and wide, luminous eyes lend the figure an inward, emotional presence, while the loose treatment of the hair, gathered at the nape, and the falling drapery across one shoulder reinforce the intimate, lyrical character of the image. The low neckline of her dress, edged with a ruffled border, introduces a note of informal naturalism that is characteristic of late Russian academic sculpture when it turns toward genre sentiment.
The bust derives from Vladimir Beklemishev’s famouse composition How Beautiful, How Fresh Were the Roses…, a work associated with the melancholy poetic line popularized by Ivan Turgenev in his prose poem of the same title. The phrase, itself originating in the poem Roses by Ivan Myatlev, became in Russian culture a symbol of tender remembrance and sorrow for vanished youth, beauty, and happiness. Beklemishev translated this literary theme into sculpture with particular refinement, creating a female image poised between portrait, allegory, and emotional genre scene. Beklemishev studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg from 1878 to 1887 under N. A. Laveretsky and A. R. von Bock, receiving numerous academic distinctions, culminating in the Grand Gold Medal in 1887 for The Entombment. That same year he was awarded the title of Class Artist of the First Degree, briefly taught at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, and was then sent abroad as an Academy pensioner. In 1892 he became adjunct professor and was elected Academician for works including The Fugitive Slave and Christian Woman of the Early Centuries.
From 1894 he served as professor and head of the sculpture studio at the Higher Art School of the Imperial Academy, and was rector in 1900-1903 and 1906-1911. Among his pupils were A. S. Golubkina, S. T. Konenkov, M. G. Manizer, and L. V. Sherwood. One of the most sought-after Russian sculptors of his day, Beklemishev also served in 1917 as commissioner for the protection of monuments of antiquity and art in Petrograd.

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