SPOON
Creator(s): Fedor Rückert (Silversmith)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
On back of spoon is a siren with crowned head of a woman and a bird's body, against a background of pale green enamel, all in painted enamel techinique. Border is in filigree enamel with a scroll of leaves and rosettes in white on a pale blue ground. Handle has a twisted design in purple and turquoise colored enamel and dart shaped leaves on a pale blue ground. Finial is decorated with moss green and emerald green leaves and brown scrools. Tiny pearl seeds incorporated in design.
- Object name:
- SPOON
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- enamel -- pearls
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1899-1908
- Size:
- 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 15.60
- Class:
- ENAMEL
- Signature marks:
- MARK on handle: kokoshnik left, IL in Cyrillic for Ival Lebedkin (Moscow essayer in 1899-1908), 84, FR in Cyrillic for Ruckert Fedor; inventory number 21355 inscribed
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973