Auction on
09 July 2021 - 11:00 (CEST) -
Salle 1 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
Prince and Princess Yusupov’s last mementos and those from other provenances bedazzled bidders beyond France’s borders. Imperial Russia captures the imagination!
Vermeil tea service, tray, teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl and presentation cup by silversmith Friedrich Kolb, Saint Petersburg, 1784–1788, the tray after 1793, total weight 3,751 gr/ 132.31 oz. Result: €141,680
Vermeil tea service, tray, teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl and presentation cup by silversmith Friedrich Kolb, Saint Petersburg, 1784–1788, the tray after 1793, total weight 3,751 gr/ 132.31 oz. Result: €141,680
Nobody doubted that the sale devoted to Felix and Irina Yusupov would be successful. The royal couple’s mementos make a huge impression whenever they appear at auction. The prince’s portrait (see below) sold for ten times its estimate, at €106,904, while that of his mother, Princess Zenaida Yusupov, Countess Soumarokoff-Elston (1861–1939), made in pastel by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovana, fetched €25,760. Other faces recalling the glorious years of Imperial Russia came out of the shadows. A 1911 oil on canvas…
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