Форум по искусству и инвестициям в искусство - Продам Cross silver reliquary with relics

Cross-silver reliquary with relics of four early Christian saints, pectoral. Company Pavel Fedorovich Sazikov, Court Supplier Majesty. Russian Empire, Moscow, 1847.
Silver 84-carat, engraving.
Cross size: 7 x 4.8 x 1.1 cm
Hallmarks: "84" mark on the master sample "PS" (the firm Pavel Fedorovich Sazikov, Supplier Court of His Majesty, before 1879). ", Assay master" AK "(Kowalski Andrei Antonovich 1821-1856 gg., Chief bergprobirer from 1856, senior probirer in Moscow) over the year "1847."
Weight - 40 grams.
In reliquaries are kept intact particles relics four early Christian saints (of the same name, LORD, thou knowest.)
Relics exude fragrance.
Relic in excellent condition. RARITY!
The subject is religious, antique, collectible interest.
Price is negotiable.
More information on request: arz-wien@rambler.ru

Sazikov Company (Paul F. Sazikov - jeweler Supplier Court of His Majesty)
Sazikov firm founded in Moscow in 1793 by Pavel Fyodorovich Sazikov. The case continued to son Ignatius (1793 -1868), Paul (1815 -1856) and grandchildren.
P.F.Sazikov, merchant of the third guild, was the owner of a small shop in Moscow, which decades later became a vast enterprise with a branch in St. Petersburg. In 1810, the factory owner is Sazikov for dressing different silverware in 1837 - received the title of court supplier, and in 1842 was opened Petersburg branch factory.
Sazikov firm was the first in Russia jewelry company, which filed its products to national history and art, and was one of the most important in the development of the "Russian style". To work a lot of famous artists and sculptors use advanced foreign experience and equipment.
Products successfully compete with the best works of jewelers in Europe, the company Sazikov considered one of the best in the middle of the XIX century, had diplomas, small and large gold medal for Russia exhibitions of art and industry products in 1835, 1849, 1853, 1861, 1865., as well as a gold medal and the Order of the Legion of Honor at the World Exhibition in London in 1851 and in 1867 in Paris.
In 1887, the shop and the factory moved to the firm Khlebnikov.