Imperial Russian Spice Besamim

European Furniture & Decorative Arts Featuring Fine Silver and The Fletcher Collection of Imperial Russia. Skinner, Boston, April 6, 2013. softcover auction catalog. This sale featured The Fletcher Collection of Imperial Russia and over 300 lots of fine silver. The sale also presented Continental and British ceramics, clocks, lighting, textiles, antique furniture and a variety of American and European sculpture from a private Midwest collector. John Fletcher always had an intense interest in Nicholas II and his family. After over fifty years working with auction houses and specialized dealers worldwide, Fletcher had amassed a collection reflecting the splendor of Russia’s cultural Golden and Silver Ages. Highlights from the collection included a white leather child’s shoe, by tradition belonging to Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich; a pair of Fabergé gilded silver and enamel napkin rings; a collodion print of the Russian Imperial Family...

Head of spice container is designed in an oncoming wave pattern with two ruby colored gemstone eyes. Hinge set at neck for easy opening to refill spices. Decorated with elegant movin...

Lot of Two Imperial Russian Silver Vodka Cups Silver vodka cup, tapered cylindrical body with flared lip finely engraved with typical alt...

We are delighted to offer this beautiful pair of antique Imperial Russian solid silver enamel spoons made in Moscow c.1882-1899 with marks for Vasily Agafonov. This pair is of a lar...

Rare and fine antique Imperial Russian .875 fine silver hand engraved cup and saucer. Maker's marks for Aleksandr Fuld, Moscow, and Master Assayer's mark...

A good antique Imperial Russian silver & cloisonne enamel kovsh, silversmith Nikolai Lakovlev Antipov & assayer Anotoly Apollonovish Artsybashev, Moscow, 1896. The kovsh of tradition...