A LARGE PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND GLASS INKWELL
Lot 171 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE MANHATTAN COLLECTION

A LARGE PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND GLASS INKWELL

BY IVAN KHLEBNIKOV, MOSCOW, 1908-1917

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A LARGE PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND GLASS INKWELL
BY IVAN KHLEBNIKOV, MOSCOW, 1908-1917
Cast and chased as a bogatyr in full armour, sitting on a rock, next to a square glass inkwell with silver mounts, modelled as a tree trunk, the hinged cover with a handle designed as a branch, interior gilt, with incurved pen-rest, on a pink marble base, marked on lower edge with 'I. Khlebnikov' beneath the Imperial Warrant
12 1⁄4 in. (31 cm.) wide

Acquired by the present owner in the 1970s.

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For a comparable inkwell from the Kremlin Armoury collection, see Exhibition catalogue, The World of Fabergé, Moscow, 2000, p. 155, no. 162.