Live Auction 15500Important Russian Art
A GEM-SET SILVER-MOUNTED CERAMIC DUCK-FORM KOVSH
Lot 225

A GEM-SET SILVER-MOUNTED CERAMIC DUCK-FORM KOVSH

THE MOUNTS MARKED FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 24748 OR 24743; THE BODY, BY THE IMPERIAL STROGANOV SCHOOL, MOSCOW

Closed26 November 2018

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A GEM-SET SILVER-MOUNTED CERAMIC DUCK-FORM KOVSH
THE MOUNTS MARKED FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 24748 OR 24743; THE BODY, BY THE IMPERIAL STROGANOV SCHOOL, MOSCOW
Modelled in the form of a stylised duck, the ceramic body with green and light blue glaze, decorated with cast and chased silver mounts in the neo-Russian style, with scrolls and beads, the head decorated with stylised silver feathers, the chest mount set with a pale blue cabochon sapphire, the eyes set with cabochon garnets, the ceramic body marked under base, the mounts marked throughout
6 3/8 in. (16.3 cm.) long

Specialist note

Fabergé started working closely with the Imperial Stroganov School in 1900, when the workshop won a gold medal at the Paris exhibition for its famous ceramics. Artists at the Imperial Stroganov School experimented with new forms and glazes. Their close collaboration with Fabergé's silversmiths in Moscow resulted in the production of magnificent decorative and functional items like the present lot.

A comparable kovsh, shaped as a duck and decorated with brown and mustard glaze, is part of the collection of the House of Hesse, see Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: Geschenke der Zarenfamilie, Eichenzell, 2016, p. 149, no. 118.