a monumental fabergé silver kovsh, moscow, circa 1900

the handle formed as numerous bogytyr figures modeled in high relief and surging over the edge of the bowl, the back of the bowl and handle chased in Old Russian style with stylized vegetal and foliate motifs, the front rim of the bowl and the top of the high shaped handle set with hardstone cabochons, with gilded interior, marked K. Fabergé in Cyrillic with Imperial warrant and 88 standard, also with scratched inventory number 21843

Forbes Collection, New York

State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, June 18-August 15, 1993
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, September 24, 1993-January 2, 1994
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, January 26, 1994-April 10, 1994

Christopher Forbes and Robyn Tromeur-Brenner, Fabergé the Forbes Collection, Levin, New York, 1999, p.240
Géza von Habsburg and Marina Lopato, Fabergé Imperial Jeweler, Abrams, New York, 1994, p.347
Evgenia Kirichenko, Russian Design and the Fine Arts 1750-1917, Abrams, New York, 1991, frontispiece and pl.194