Vyacheslav Mukhin

Iskusstvo russkoi finifti kontsa XIV – nachala XX veka / The Art of Russian Enamels, Late 14th – Early 20th Centuries

St. Petersburg: Grifon, 1996. Sewn cl. This monograph on an art form the Russians inherited from Byzantium shows how they developed it in their way from the sixteenth-century jewelry Kremlin workshops in Moscow and the Stroganovs' in northern Russia to Fabergé's studios of the late nineteenth century. The range of articles that enameling embellished was broad: crowns, icons, drinking vessels, Easter eggs, to name a few. 208 p., 30 cm, approx. 200 color and b/w illus., Rus. and ENGLISH. Item #787

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