Decorative Arts & Design
Cigar Box
Permanent ExhibitionMetalwork
Details
- Author / creator
- Feodor Ivanovich Rückert (Russian, 1840–1917)
- Object type
- Metalwork
- Date or period
- c. 1896–1908
- Dimensions summary
- 20.2 × 13.5 × 4.2 cm
- Maker or workshop
- Feodor Ivanovich Rückert
- Period / style
- Art Nouveau
About this object
Fabergé’s craftsmen in Moscow became known for their work in the pan-Slavic or neo-Russian taste, hearkening back to 17th-century styles of Russian folk decoration. In this whimsically oversized box for cigars or loose tobacco, Fabergé used the technique to highlight a symbol of imperial royalty, the preening peacock, here rendered in brilliant hues of blue and green enamels.
Materials and technique
Silver gilt, enamel, sapphire set in gold; [reproduction silk tinder cord, gold and moonstone catch]
Signature and marks
C. Fabergé (in Cyrillic); double-headed eagle [imperial warrant]; 84, Kokoshnik, tester's initials [assay mark for Moscow, 1896-1908]; scratched 16358.
