A RARE RUSSIAN PICTORIAL SILVER-GILT AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL CIGARETTE CASE
MARK OF MOSKOVSKOE YUVELIMOE ZAVEDENIE (MOSCOW JEWELLERY ESTABLISHMENT), kokoshnik for 1908/17, CIRCA 1917
The cover with a portrait en grisaille of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), within a red wreath, with hammer and sickle below, on dark blue ground with brick-red border decorated with gilt motifs, the blue ground with foliage and flower-heads in polychrome enamels, the reverse with flowers and foliage primarily in pink, green, orange, white and turquoise on a mid-blue ground, cabochon thumbpiece
4 3/8 in. long (11.2 cm.)
A RARE RUSSIAN PICTORIAL SILVER-GILT AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL CIGARETTE CASE
MARK OF MOSKOVSKOE YUVELIMOE ZAVEDENIE (MOSCOW JEWELLERY ESTABLISHMENT), kokoshnik for 1908/17, CIRCA 1917
The cover with a portrait en grisaille of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), within a red wreath, with hammer and sickle below, on dark blue ground with brick-red border decorated with gilt motifs, the blue ground with foliage and flower-heads in polychrome enamels, the reverse with flowers and foliage primarily in pink, green, orange, white and turquoise on a mid-blue ground, cabochon thumbpiece
4 3/8 in. long (11.2 cm.)
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