1908–17
Russian
Containers-Boxes
Decorative Arts
silver-gilt, enamel
Russia,Moscow
Overall: 2 1/4 × 5 5/8 × 4 5/8 in. (5.72 × 14.29 × 11.75 cm)
98.12
Neo-Russian style --Russian
Maker's inital FR for Fedor Rückert, assay mark of Moscow 1908-17, 99 zolotnik
Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of Russian Enamel
Fabergé Revealed, Palace Museum, Beijing, China, April 16 - July 17, 2016

Fabergé: Jeweler to the Tsars, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, June 20 – September 27, 2015

Fabergé Revealed, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 14, 2014 - May 25, 2015

Fabulous Fabergé, Jeweler to the Czars, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, June 14 - October 12, 2014

Fabergé Revealed, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, June 22 - September 29, 2013

Fabergé: The Rise and Fall, Detroit Institute of Art, October 14, 2012 - January 21, 2013
For information about the painting, Knight at the Crossroads by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1882, see: Alan Bird, A History of Russian Painting, G.K. Hal & Co., Boston, MA, pp. 151-153;

For Ruckert and his enamels, see Anne Odom, "A Key to the past. Fedor Ruckert's miniature picture gallery," Apollo, Jan 1993, pp. 22-27;



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