Description
Sotheby's, New York [Published date: 2007]. Softcover, auction catalog, 236 pp; illustrated throughout in full color with plates of icons, paintings, silver, Faberge, and Russian decorative arts; 27 cm.
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers show light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Issued for the sale Russian Art, Volume I, held in New York on April 16, 2007. Includes two sessions: Session One, Lots 1-154; Session Two, Lots 155-305. Notable highlights illustrated include: a fine and rare Faberge gold and enamel miniature chair bonbonniere, workmaster Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, 1899-1903; a monumental Faberge silver kovsh, Moscow, circa 1900; a rare and important Russian silver side table, Grachev, St. Petersburg, 1884; a monumental Russian calendar icon of the full year, early 19th century; and a bronze portrait bust of Giovanni Segantini by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, cast 1915.