Collection of Five Russian Hand-Painted Eggs

19th century Russian egg gold painted plaster with Russian double eagle The beautiful and charming plaster egg is gold painted. It has been made in the ...

Each panel with arched top, painted with large ribbon-tied floral bouquets on a blue and white striped ground.

Traditional Russian 'Matrioska' doll wooden figure. Hand-painted. Made by unknown manufacturer in Russia, circa 1960. In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful patina. Materials: Wood. Matryoshka dolls are a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. The name matryoshka, literally "little matron", is a diminutive form of the Russian female first name "Matryona" or "Matryosha". The first Russian nested doll...

Collection of 5 contemporary bears. All bears are jointed and in great condition. Minor loss of fur to smallest bear. Largest bears measures: 9 high x 5 wide Smallest bear meas...

A painted porcelain Easter egg, depicting dahlia flowers on one side, while the cyrillic inscription: Risen Christ on the other side, on a white backgroun...

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...