Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
IWAN WINBERG (RUSSO-SWEDISH, FL. C. 1825-1846)
Lot 215

IWAN WINBERG (RUSSO-SWEDISH, FL. C. 1825-1846)

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 11,875

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IWAN WINBERG (RUSSO-SWEDISH, FL. C. 1825-1846)
Alexandra Feodorovna (1798-1860), Empress of Russia, née Princess Charlotte of Prussia, in silver off-the-shoulders dress embellished with pearls and rubies, wearing a pearl necklace with diamond and ruby-set clasp, corresponding earrings, kokoshnik adorned with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and pearls from which flows a white gauze veil; red curtain background
signed 'Winberg.' (mid-right)
on ivory
oval, 4 1/8 in. (105 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount

Christie's, Geneva, 13 November 1990, lot 201.

Specialist note

Alexandra Feodorovna was Empress consort of Russia as the wife of Tsar Nicholas I. Their son became Tsar Alexander II of Russia.