A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL SILVER-GILT DESK SET

A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL SILVER-GILT DESK SET
BY PAVEL OVCHINNIKOV, MAKER FEODOR RÜCKERT, MOSCOW, 1899-1908
Comprising a tray with a pen-rest, an inkwell with a hinged cover, a blotter, two stamp boxes with hinged covers and a letter rack, each enamelled overall with stylised scrolling foliage on varicolour ground, with birds on the letter rack, the blotter with a finial in the form of a mythological creature, marked throughout with ‘P. Ovchinnikov’ in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial Warrant, overstriking the maker’s initials of Feodor Rückert, also with later Soviet marks
The stand, 12 ¾ in. (32.5 cm.) long

Provenance
Henry Penn Wenger (1927-1997).
Bequeathed by the above to the present owner.