Feodor Rückert shaded cloisonné and en plein enamel pencil holder, Moscow, 1899-1908

Silver, gilding, enamel

Height 4 3/4 in. (12 cm) 

Inv. no. ab_7248

Provenance: 

Collection of Wivica Ankarcrona Borell (1935-2019)

This narrow, pocket-form gilded silver and enamel vessel for pencils or other desk implements is enameled on both sides with a young woman richly attired in the style of the seventeenth century and wearing the diadem-like headdress known as a kokoshnik.