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Lot 181 PROPERTY FROM A DANISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
A SILVER-GILT CLOISONNÉ AND EN PLEIN ENAMEL TABLE BOX
MARKED K. FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 36829
Closed6 June 2011
Price Realised
GBP 193,250
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Specialist note
Peter Theodor Oktavius Christensen Tversted worked for the Danish Great Northern Telegraph Company, in Danish called "Det Store Nordiske Telegraf-Selskab" in Russia in the 1920s and 1930s. Founded in 1868, the company is responsible for laying and maintaining cable in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, Russia and the Far East.
For a similar box by Feodor Rückert with an en plein enamelled scene after a painting by Konstantin Makovsky, see Christie's, London, 29 November 2006, lot 150. For other similar boxes by Feodor Rückert with en plein enamelled scenes see Christie's, London, 9 June 2009, lot 163; Christie's, New York, 23 October 2000, lot 8; Christie's, London, 8 April 1987, lot 168; and Christie's, New York, 26 October 1982, lot 238.
For a similar box by Feodor Rückert with an en plein enamelled scene after a painting by Konstantin Makovsky, see Christie's, London, 29 November 2006, lot 150. For other similar boxes by Feodor Rückert with en plein enamelled scenes see Christie's, London, 9 June 2009, lot 163; Christie's, New York, 23 October 2000, lot 8; Christie's, London, 8 April 1987, lot 168; and Christie's, New York, 26 October 1982, lot 238.