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Fabergé Silver-Gilt and Enamel Kovsh
 Moscow, ca. 1899–1908.
 Silver-gilt, opaque enamel.
 Dimensions: 4 × 11.4 × 7 cm. Weight: 128.6 g
A refined silver-gilt kovsh, its body cloaked in a deep opaque blue enamel, accented with applied silver ornament and bead motifs. Its shaped handle is richly modeled with scrollwork and bears a cabochon accent, uniting traditional Russian form with decorative finesse.
The kovsh, historically a Russian ladle-like vessel, was revived in late 19th-century decorative arts as a symbol of national identity. Fabergé’s Moscow workshops elevated the form by combining classical silhouettes with high-quality enameling and luxurious silver detailing.
Comparable example:
A blue opaque enamelled covsh parcel-gilt and set with seed pearls, marked Fabergé with the Imperial warrant (Moscow, 1908–1917, scratched inventory number 24699) was sold at Christie’s for 181,250 GBP. That kovsh features blue biscuit enamel bands, clusters of raised leaves in oxidized silver, and seed-pearl decoration in the Old Russian style. https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5091445

Starting price: 4500€
Estimate: 5000-7000€
Hammer Price: UNSOLD€

A RUSSIAN GLASS TUMBLER AND SAUCER OF TRIPLE-LAYER GLASS WITH PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION Penza Province, Nikolsko-Pestrovsky Glassworks of the Bakhmetev family, 1893.
Clear glass, milk glass, pink glass; cutting, carving, gilt decoration.
Dimensions
Tumbler: 10 × 9 cm.
Saucer: diameter 14 cm, height 4 cm.
Presentation inscription
In memory of 10 January 1893, to Dmitry Ivanovich Kuznetsov.
A rare tumbler and saucer made in triple-layer glass, combining clear, milk-white, and pink layers. The tumbler is of gently flaring cylindrical form, widening toward the rim. Below a narrow gilt band runs a gilt presentation inscription, encircling the upper register of the vessel. The body is enriched with cut decoration in a lattice pattern alternating with elongated oval reserves, the cutting exposing the contrasting inner layers and creating a lively interplay between the translucent pink outer casing, the opaque white intermediate layer, and the clear glass beneath.
The saucer is conceived en suite, with a broad pink rim and corresponding cut ornament around the well and outer wall.
The Nikolsko-Pestrovsky factory of the Bakhmetev family, founded in 1763, was among the most important Russian glassworks of the 18th and 19th centuries. Renowned for the quality of its crystal, coloured overlays, and virtuoso cutting, the enterprise achieved particular distinction in the 19th century, when it supplied works for aristocratic and courtly patrons. By the late Imperial period, the factory continued to produce highly accomplished pieces uniting technical mastery with elegant decorative effect, to which the present tumbler and saucer belong.
A comparable tumbler of closely related artistic conception is preserved in the State Hermitage Museum, inv. no. ERS-950.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3500€
Hammer Price: Not sold

A Russian art-nouveau style silver-gilt and cut crystal carafe. Makers mark of I. Saltikov. Moscow, 1908-1917. Height: 28.5 cm.

Starting price: 1500€
Estimate: 2000-3500€

A Russian silver-gilt and cloisonne enamel salt-cellar. Makers mark of P. Baskakov. Moscow, 1908-1917. Dimensions: 3.5 x 1.6 cm. Total weight: 18.7 g.

Starting price: 100€
Estimate: 100-150€

An interesting desk set in the memory of French Russian alliance of 1891—1893. Poetry, polychrome painting. Height – 26,5 cm.

Starting price: 400€
Estimate: 500-700€

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: 19 000 €