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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€

A very rare Russian bronze composition ”Russian Knight – Vityaz”. Author Baron Peter Klodt. A rare version of the statuette, found in archival documents under the name “Russian Warrior in a Helmet and Chainmail”. In the mid-1840s, Klodt worked on groups for the Nevsky (Blagoveshchensky) Bridge in St. Petersburg. In the Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA) we found project sketches from 1846. Among them, the horse-mounted figures of warriors in ancient Russian attire stand out.
Similar drawings are also found in the collection of the Russian Museum in Saint-Petersburg. The statuettes “Russian Warrior in a Helmet and Chainmail” and “Slav with a Pike,” notable for their meticulous recreation of military weaponry from the 14th–17th centuries, were most likely created as models for the unrealized project of a bridge across the Neva. Petersburg, second part of the 19th century. Dimensions: 57 x 50 x 17.5 cm. See a similar example in the collection of the Russian State Historical Museum in Moscow: https://catalog.shm.ru/entity/OBJECT/2497912?exhibition=590507059&index=22 and Russian State Tretyakov galley in Moscow https://my.tretyakov.ru/app/masterpiece/51882

Starting price: 30000€
Estimate: 35000-45000€

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: 2500-3500€

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 Imperial Russian silver and neillo tray with a deer. Makers mark of A. Postnikov.
Moscow, 1889 year.
Weight: 909.7 gr.
Dimensions: 26 x 35 x 1.6 cm.

Starting price: 2500€
Estimate: 3000-5000€

Russian Ormolu and Malachite Pastoral Scene inkstand. 
 St Petersburg, mid-19th century.
 Bronze, malachite; casting, chasing, gilding, carved and veneered malachite base. Dimensions: 15 x 17 cm.
A refined cabinet bronze depicting a pastoral genre scene with a young boy standing beside a fruiting tree, set upon an oval malachite plinth. The composition unites the narrative charm of small-scale sculpture with the decorative richness of Russian hardstone work: the warm surface of gilded bronze is set in striking contrast to the deep green malachite base.
Such combined works in gilt bronze and malachite became especially honoured in St Petersburg workshops in the mid-19th century. In the early years of the factory directed by Carl Woerfell, production focused largely on objects made in bronze and malachite, and it was quickly understood that sculptural groups mounted on stone bases possessed a greater appeal than plain bronze alone. Animalier and genre subjects, when enriched by malachite plinths or other ornamental stones, acquired a more luxurious and distinctly Russian character. The present model belongs to this important tradition of cabinet sculpture, in which bronze was consciously paired with precious ornamental materials to heighten both its artistic presence and commercial desirability.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3000€
Hammer Price: Not sold

Russian silver-gilt and niello tobacco case with Minin and Pozharsky monument and Moscow Kremlin depiction. Moscow, 1934. Dimensions: 11.5 x 6 x 2 cm. Weight: 127 g.

Starting price: 200€
Estimate: 200-300€