Sale on Tuesday 14 April, from 2:00pm
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Public Exhibition
Monday 13 April, 9:30am-12:00am & 2:00pm-5:00pm
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Adress
15, rue Dante
06000 Nice
France
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Contact of the sale
+ 33 4 92 15 06 06
contact-niceencheres.com
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Lot 129
RUSSIA
Important 84 zolotniks (875 thousandths) silver covered present cup with engraved and chased decoration of stylized and interlaced foliage, engraved in the center with a dedication in French "Prince Serge Galitzine Cannes Golf Club 1894" and surmounting a neo-Gothic-style arcature, the lid decorated en suite, the handle with gadrooned decoration and foliage (top element missing). Some wear and minor dents.
Saint Petersburg, circa 1890.
Maker: SAZIKOV with mark of Supplier to the Imperial Court and medal from the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London with profiles of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
H. 38 cm. Weight: 1199.37 g.
Provenance
Golf trophy presented to the winner, Prince Serge Sergeyevich Golitsyne (1863-1923)
History
The Cannes Golf Club was founded in Mandelieu-la-Napoule in 1891 by Grand Duke Michel Mikhailovich of Russia (1861-1929), who had been a golf enthusiast since a stay in Scotland. It was the first golf course on the Côte d'Azur and one of the oldest in France. From the outset, the club was frequented by the international wintering colony on the Riviera, including Englishmen, Russians and members of the European aristocracy.
€ 6,000/8,000
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Lot 131
RUSSIA
Rectangular paperweight in carved hard stone, decorated with an assortment of fruits in rhodonite, carnelian, chalcedony, onyx including white and amber grapes, yellow plums, raspberries, blackcurrants resting on nephrite leaves, set on a moving base in Kalgan grey jasper.
Work from the second half of the 19th century, attributed to the workshop of the lapidary Ivan Stebakov (circa 1820-1881) in Ekaterinburg.
Dimensions: 6.5 x 16 x 10 cm (missing and very slightly chipped).
€ 2,000/3,000
