ANTIQUE RUSSIAN GILT SILVER ELEPHANT HEAD STIRRUP CUP
The elephants' eyes are decorated with crimson faceted stones.
HALLMARKS: '88' silver standard next to a woman's head in a kokoshnik, turned to the left, and a stamp with the initials of the master 'I.P'. for silver master Julius Rappoport - please see the information below.
CONDITION: Very good condition for its age. The item is described to the best of our knowledge. For further information, please refer to the pictures and feel free to contact us via email with any questions.
DIMENSIONS: H: 2 3/8 inches (6.03 cm). Total weight: 113 grams.
ESTIMATE PRICE: $2,000 - $4,000.
HISTORY of SALES: A few years ago, Russian silver stirrup cups (not made by FABERGE) were sold on Live Auctioneers and Sotheby's for $6,500, $16,500, $20,850, and $21,000 - please refer to the screenshots for details.
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WORKMASTER: Julius Alexandrovitch Rappoport, Russian silversmith, FABERGE workmaster. Born in 1864. Trained in Berlin, one of FABERGE's rare craftsmen of Jewish origin. Julius Rappoport opened his first own workshop in St. Petersburg at Ekateriniski Canal in 1883, then he moved to Moscow to become a FABERGE workmaster. His maker's mark was IP and in Russian Cyrillic. He belonged from 1886 till 1908 to four 'workmasters', main leaders of FABERGE workshops. He was the FABERGE's most important supplier of large silver objects. He is best known for his naturalistic animal figures (massive silver casts), but he also executed special commissions for the Imperial Family, the Imperial Cabinet and noble families Yousupov an others. Recently a few of these special commissions that were designed by FABERGE, and made by Rappoport, have been auctioned by Bonhams and Christies in London(England) and in Munich.

HISTORY of Workmasters and Marks at FABERGE SHOP: To understand how the gold, silver, and jewelry industry was structured in Russia at this time, it is worth quoting from Max Engman's article "Finnish Goldsmiths in St. Petersburg during Two Centuries”, in Tillander-Godenhielm, et al., Karl Faberge and His Contemporaries (1980): Most of the Finnish masters were only concerned with production; very few had their own shops. As a rule, Finnish workshops worked either under contract or as free subsidiary suppliers to firms who took care of sales. The high degree of specialization in the field favoured the adoption of a system of subsidiary suppliers. The House of Faberge had an organisation of this kind. In addition to the workshops which operated on the firm's premises, many of which were presided over by Finnish masters, Faberge employed many other workshops as subsidiary suppliers.

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