Live Auction 1585European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries Part I
A RUSSIAN MALACHITE VENEERED TAZZA
Lot 153

A RUSSIAN MALACHITE VENEERED TAZZA

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed16 April 2014

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A RUSSIAN MALACHITE VENEERED TAZZA
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The shallow bowl with moulded everted border on a slender spreading circular shaft and square plinth
12 ½ in. (32 cm.) high; 13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) wide; 13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) deep

With Armand & Serge Khaitrine, Paris, July 1987.

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).