RECENT ACQUISITIONS - 14th January, 2019
ANTIQUE 20thC RUSSIAN SILVER-GILT, ENAMEL & WOOD PHOTO FRAME, 3rd ARTEL, c.1910
20th Century Exceptional Russian silver gilt, guilloche enamel and wood photograph frame, rectangular shape, the bound reeded bezel border set within translucent light blue-coloured enamel over moiré engine-turning, wood surround, back and strut, sides mounted with a very fine acanthus leaf boarders and applied with scrolling floral plaques.
Hallmarked Russian silver 88 (915), St-Petersburg, Maker 3rd Artel - Active between 1908 and 1917 in St. Petersburg, it included almost thirty artisans and it produced artworks for Faberge and for the Imperial family
Reference Number: A5494
