Russian Desk Accessories

Beautiful hand-painted lacquer box, rectangular profile. Russia Wonderful piece of Russian craftsmanship. Painted lacquer boxes are one of the most typical Russian crafts, they are made of soft wood or paper mache and are painted with oil paints. The lid of this little box is decorated with a very finely detailed representation in bright colors on a black lacquered background. It also has gold brush strokes. In this case you can see a bear hunting...

A snuff gold box designed by Henrik Wigström. Beautiful neo classic snuff box, created in St, Petersburg Russia, at the workshop of Henrik Wigström, back in the 1908. This piece has been carefully crafted in the Russian imperial and Louis XVI style, in solid yellow gold of 56 zolotnik (14kt) and embellished with applications of white enamel. Decorated around with garlands and intricates dotted patterns. Fitted with an invisible hinge and close perfectly well. Weight: 36.65 Grams, (23.49 Dwt). Measurements: 41 mm by 39 mm by 14 mm (1.61 x 1.53 x 0.55 Inches). Hallmarks: Stamped on both parts with Russian marks; the kokoshnik mark with the letter a for the city of Saint Petersburg, the maker's mark HW associated to Henrik Wigström inside an oval cartouche, scratched with the inventory numbers 86111 and the 56 zolotnik mark for the assay and warranty of the gold. Hallmarks: Stamped in the border with German importation marks; the Crown mark, the retailer mark AT inside an oval and the 585 mark for the assay and warranty of the gold. Henrik Immanuel Wigström born on 1862 and was a Finnish silver & goldsmith. He was one of the most important Fabergé workmasters along with Michael Perchin. Perchin was the head workmaster from 1886 until his death in 1903, when he was succeeded by his chief assistant Henrik Wigström. These two workmasters were responsible for almost all the imperial Easter eggs. Henrik Wigström was born in Ekenäs, Finland, and was apprenticed to a local Danish born goldsmith named Peter Madsén, a successful manufacturer of silverware who was familiar with the jewellery trade in the city of St. Petersburg, as at one time he had had a workshop there. Once in Madsén's employment, his master's trade with Russia, as well as his numerous business contacts here, brought him to work in St. Petersburg. Goldsmith Werner Elfström employed Wigström as a apprentice on his arrival in the capital in 1875. Wigström became assistant in 1884, at the age of 22, to Perchin, whose shop at that time was already working exclusively for Fabergé. Wigström became head workmaster at Fabergé after Perchin's death in 1903. The number of craftsmen in Wigström's workshop diminished drastically with the outbreak of World War I. By 1918, the Revolution forced the complete closing of the House of Fabergé. Aged 56, Wigström retreated almost empty-handed to his summer house, on Finnish territory, and died at Terijoki in 1923. His art is similar to Perchin's but tends to be in the Louis XVI, Empire, or neo-classical style. Nearly all the Fabergé hardstone...

Presentation picture frame from the imperial Russia. Beautiful neo classic picture desk frame, created in Moscow Russia, back in the 1910's. It was carefully crafted in the Russian imperial and Louis XVI courts style, with tassels bows and garlands made up in silver. The silver elements are treated with three colors of gilding and is embellished with a guilloche panel with vivid red enamel. Fitted at the reverse with a hinged retractable stand and four screws to open the back part. The glass is oval with flat uneven borders. Diamonds: Mount with a pair of old European rose cut diamonds Weight: 74.95 Grams, (48.04 Dwt). Measurements: 70 mm by 47 mm by 7.1 mm (2.76 x 1.85 x 0.28 Inches). Hallmarks: Stamped on several parts with Russian marks; the kokoshnik post 1908 mark with the letter a...

This magnificent desk seal dates to Russia pre the 1917 revolution and is crafted from nephrite jade, gold and a carved white chalcedony intaglio. The pommel form nephrite jade handl...

A Faberge' jewelled and enamelled gold and hardstone seal, the flat oval handle inset at both sides with a moss agate panel over sunburst engine-turning within a rose-cut diamond-set border, the mount enamelled in opaque white, the collar with swirled fluting within further diamonds, blank nephrite matrix, workmaster Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, circa 1910. Should you choose to make this purchase we would be delighted to send it to you in a Bentley & Skinner handmade leather case packed in a gift-wrapped Bentley & Skinner black and gold presentation box. Shortly afterwards we will send you on a valuation for insurance purposes for your reference and safekeeping. This exquisite hardstone seal was made by Fabergé and comes from the Fabergé collection of Bentley & Skinner, the London jewellers by appointment to both Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Fabergé was established in St Petersburg in 1842, and by the late nineteenth century, was Russia’s largest and best-known jewellery house. The house has become known for their royal commissions and their close ties to the family of Tsar Nicholas II. This seal features a flat oval handle with a gorgeous dendritic agate panel inset. This particular agate has the natural appearance of a miniature treecape, adding fine detail to this piece. Surrounding the handle is a frame of glittering rose-cut diamonds. The mount features white enamel and a fluted design set with diamonds, culminating in a blank matrix made from vibrant nephrite. This piece bears the marks of workmaster Henrik Wigström, who was head workmaster at Fabergé from 1903 onwards. This antique Fabergé seal...

An Important Fabergé two-colour gold-mounted guilloche enamel desk clock, marked Fabergé, square, with circular seed-pearl bezel on lilac sunburst guilloché ground, the border enamel...

The Fabergé egg is the symbol of spiritual and physical rebirth and renewal. This crystal egg is signed and numbered 0837 Fabergé eggs are handcrafted in St. Petersburg. Russia. As descendants of the original Fabergé artists, they recreated the eggs with fine blown crystal, expertly hand-cut and engraved to recreate the splendor of the original Fabergé Imperial Eggs...

Russian Faberge Style Cloisonne Enamel Egg. 84 Silver H3 (NZ). A beautifully shaped Russian silver-gilt and cloisonné enamel egg. Abundantly dec...

Rare and unusual enamel umbrella clock with Russian hallmarks is a beautiful guilloche silver enamel umbrella clock measuring 3" in diameter x 3" to end of the handle, with appl...

Antique Faberge object designed, executed and hallmarked by Karl Gustave Armfelt, a Finn who was accorded the title of Workmaster by Faberge in 1895. ...

An exceptional antique inkwell by Carl Faberge, made in Moscow between 1908 and 1917, designed in the 1910s in Russian Modern style which was influenced by medieval Russo-Byzantine Art and Art Nouveau style. The inkwell is decorated with elaborate medieval floral designs on a matte black enamel ground. This superb inkwell is one of the best Faberge desk...

A 19th Century Antique Gold Mounted Carved Jade, Carnelian and Diamond Desk Wax Seal circa 1870s The jade handle is carved with clovers in oriental taste. Each clover is highlighted with a bezel-set old mine diamond. The design and material of the handle reflect a fashion for Chinese and Japanese decorative objects among aristocrats in the 1870s-1880s. The elaborately chased with floral designs gold fitting is crafted in 18K gold plated with 24K. Although unmarked, it is a work of a major St. Petersburg jeweler of the period. Height 71 mm (2 3/4 in.) The desk seal...