Christie's: IMPORTANT SILVER, OBJECTS OF VERTU AND RUSSIAN WORKS OF ART: Lot 271
A SILVER-GILT CLOISONN쳌 AND EN-PLEIN ENAMEL CASKET
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marked with the Cyrillic initials of Fedor R쳌ckert, Moscow, 1908-1917 Oblong, on four bracket feet, the sides and feet decorated with stylized vari-colored Pan-Slavic motifs, the ends with shaped cloisonn‚ enamel handles, the raised hinged cover with en-plein enamel plaque depicting the painting by V. Vasnetsov 'Russian Knight at the Crossroads', marked on base 4in. (10.2cm.) long NOTES Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1848-1926) painted his painting 'Russian Knight at the Crossroads' (Vitiaz) in 1882. It was commissioned by Savva Ivanovich Mamontov. This painting is now hanging in the State Russian museum in St. Petersburg.
