Silver matchbox with polychrome filigree enamel. Moscow. Workshop Shaposhnikov.

Silver matchbox with polychrome filigree enamel. Moscow. Workshop Shaposhnikov.

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Silver matchbox with polychrome enamel on filigree, Shaposhnikov workshop, neo-Russian style. Moscow, 1899-1908 Hallmarks: 84 samples with a female head in a kokoshnik, turned to the left, with the initials of the assay inspector of the Moscow district IL - Ivan Lebedkin (1899-1908), master of the SSh. Condition: in good condition, enamel chips on the sides. Dimensions: 6x4x2.3 cm. Weight 52 g. Sergei Ivanovich Shaposhnikov - silversmith and jewelry dealer (1897-1908). The GIM collection contains items made by Shaposhnikov.

Art:

russia

Height:

6 cm

Width:

4 cm

Depth:

2.3 cm

Period:

At the turn of 19th -20th century

Style:

Neo-Russian

Country:

Russia, Moscow

Material:

Silver 84, Cloisonné enamel

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Neo-Russian style.
The neo-Russian or pseudo-Russian style is part of the aesthetics of historicism and national identity of the 1815-1880s. It arose as an official position and an internal response of society to the victory of 1812. Concerned about all types of artistic creation, social and philosophical life of society. Determined the type of official architecture, private brick ward architecture, historical graphics and painting, the theme of decorative and applied art. The formation of the style is associated with the question of the originality of Russian history, developed by the Slavophiles. The main forms and techniques of decoration are borrowed from wooden architecture. Geometric definiteness and ethnographic fragmentation of the decor prevail. The style was especially popular in silver. Ladles, brothers, saltcellars in the form of thrones-towers, etc. expanded the range of Russian craftsmen of the second half of the 19th century. The neo-Russian style became a stable form of thought for most of the 19th century until the advent of modernity. ... Read More

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