Kovsh with Sirin

1908-1917

24.1 cm 13.4 cm 11.6 cm

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What is particularly unusual with this kovsh is the use of the cloisonné rather than the filigree technique in creating the image of the Sirin. That is to say, flat rather than twisted wires separate the fields of color and their edges are flush with the surface rather than ri...

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Sotheby's, Geneva, May 15, 1986; Jean M. Riddell, Washington, D.C., May 15, 1986, by purchase [Leo Kaplan, New York, as agent]; Walters Art Museum, 2010, by bequest.
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