A Fabergé silver-gilt and pictorial enamel box, probably workmaster Feodor Rückert, Moscow, 1908-1917

the lid with a central reserve painted en plein after Konstantin Trutovsky's Round Dance in the Kursk Governorate (1860), the border with shaded enamel exotic birds, cloison coils and geometric motifs on a blue-flecked rust-coloured ground, the sides with stylised foliage, with dripped overlay, struck K.Fabergé in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial Warrant, 88 standard, scratched inventory number 26465, in original wood box

Excellent condition. The underside of the base with light wear to the gilding, though not to the silver. The silk lining of the box worn and frayed around the hinges.
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The painted view is a loose and simplified adaptation of Trutovsky's original work, which is now in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.