Fabergé box with a view of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky, workmaster Feodor Rückert, Moscow, 1908-1917 (probably 1912)
Fabergé box with a view of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky, workmaster Feodor Rückert, Moscow, 1908-1917 (probably 1912)
Fabergé box with a view of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky, workmaster Feodor Rückert, Moscow, 1908-1917 (probably 1912)

Fabergé box with a view of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky, workmaster Feodor Rückert, Moscow, 1908-1917 (probably 1912)

Silver, enamel, gilding. 

13/16 x 1 1/4 in. (2 x 4.5 cm)

Inv. no. ab_0041

The lid of this box is set with a matt enamel plaque painted en plein with a view of Ivan Martos’ monument to Minin and Pozharsky (1816-18) located on Moscow’s Red Square. 

Exhibited: 

Moscow, Gosudarstvennyi istoriko-kulʹturnyi muzei-zapovednik "Moskovskii Kremlʹ", “Karl Faberzhe i Fedor Riukert. Shedevry russkoi emali,” 9 October 2020 – 14 February 2021, no. 91.

Publications:

Muntyan, T.N. Karl Faberzhe i Fedor Riukert. Shedevry russkoi emali. Moscow: Gosudarstvennyi istoriko-kulʹturnyi muzei-zapovednik "Moskovskii Kremlʹ", 2020. Cat. no. 91, p. 92.

McCarthy, Kieran, et al. Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution. London: V&A Publishing, 2021, p. 34.