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Lot 92

Sale 5525 - Silver, Objets de Vertu & Russian Works of Art
Oct 18, 2016 6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$7,000 - 9,000
Price Realized
$6,500
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A Russian silver-mounted palisander mirror with the cypher of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich the Stroganov School, Moscow, 1908-1918

In the Russian "Stil' modern", the silver banded palisander doors with a silver bolt opening to reveal two interior panels modeled and chased with art nouveau motifs, and the lyrics to the folk song "Tell me, tell me, Sparrow," the crestrail with a stylized Kremlin skyline against a gouache sunset, centering a cartouche in the form of a wax seal engraved with the cypher of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891-1941) set between roiling stylized clouds, the back with shaped strut.

H: 12, W: 7 in. (closed), 12 3/4 in. (open)

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