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A RUSSIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MALACHITE VENEERED TAZZA
Lot 52 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

A RUSSIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MALACHITE VENEERED TAZZA

MID-19TH CENTURY

Closed14 March 2013

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A RUSSIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MALACHITE VENEERED TAZZA
MID-19TH CENTURY
The square bowl with everted rim on a tapering socle and stepped rectangular plinth with a band of quatrefoils, on four scrolled and foliate cast feet
18 in. (46 cm.) high; 12½ in. (32 cm.) square

Specialist note

The Russian vogue for stone-cutting led to the creation of beautiful objets d'art in malachite, a stalagmitic form of copper carbonate. Sawn into very thin slices, the application of the veneers on a stone or metal ground was determined by the pleasing patterns formed by the veins. A related tazza made by the Ekaterinburg lapidary workshop and dated from the second quarter of the 19th century is currently in the collection of the Hermitage (V.B. Semyonov, Malachite, Sverdlovsk, 1987, vol. I, p. 182, fig. 43).