An important set of four Moscow vermeil-mounted beakers - image-1
An important set of four Moscow vermeil-mounted beakers - image-2
An important set of four Moscow vermeil-mounted beakers - image-1An important set of four Moscow vermeil-mounted beakers - image-2

Lot 1081 Dα

An important set of four Moscow vermeil-mounted beakers

Auction 1066 - overview Cologne
20.05.2016, 17:00 - Selected Works of Art
Estimate: 25.000 € - 30.000 €
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An important set of four Moscow vermeil-mounted beakers

Decorated with Japanese style scenes of swans and water lilies in plique à jour enamel. H 9 cm.
Marks of Pawel Akimow Owtschinnikow, 1896 - 1908.

Ovchinnikov's workshop produced outstanding works in cloisonné and plique à jour enamel which were prized throughout Russia and the rest of Europe.

Literature

Cf. for the plique à jour works of Ovchinnikov, illus. in: Solodkoff, Russische Goldschmiedekunst, Munich 1981, illus. 58, 62. Ovchinnikov's workshop cf.: Fabergés Konkurrenten, in: Habsburg, Fabergé, Hofjuwelier des Zaren, Munich 1986, p. 341. A similar beaker illus. in Hill et al., Fabergé et les maitres orfèvres russes, Paris 1990, p. 236.