拍品 62
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A FINE AND RARE RUSSIAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE ON A HARDSTONE PAPERWEIGHT
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A FINE AND RARE RUSSIAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE ON A HARDSTONE PAPERWEIGHT

BY GEORGE FERDINAND WECKLER (1800-1861), SIGNED 'G. WEKLER' (LOWER RIGHT), ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1840

细节
A FINE AND RARE RUSSIAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE ON A HARDSTONE PAPERWEIGHT
by George Ferdinand Weckler (1800-1861), signed 'G. Wekler' (lower right), St. Petersburg, circa 1840
Rectangular plaque with rounded corners depicting a romantic wooded riverside landscape with a couple of shepherds and their cattle, in black border, within a bevelled gilt-metal mount engraved with scrolls and foliage, set on a rectangular lapis-lazuli paperweight
the micromosaic 2 3/8 x 3 5/8 in. (60 x 92 mm.), the lapis 3 1/8 x 5 5/16 in. (80 x 135 mm.)
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拍品专文

According to J. Hanisee Gabriel (The Gilbert Collection - Micromosaics, London, 2000, pp. 290-291), Riga-born Georgi Wekler 'is the most celebrated Russian master of micromosaics'. See Hanisee Gabriel (loc. cit.) for extensive information and literature. Another signed plaque by him was sold Sotheby's, London Olympia, 25 June 2003, lot 127.