Fauconnier du tsar au XVIIe siècle by Lanceray, c.1872

Date Created: 25 October 2019

Author: Evegeniy Lanceray DeeAnn Hoff

Source: The Internet

Owner: Lanceray web-site

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Fauconnier du tsar au XVIIe siècle by Lanceray, c.1872 © Trevor Jones
(Lanceray Website)

The design by Fabergé reflects inspiration from Evgenii Lanceray’s Fauconnier du tsar au XVlle siècle (Sokolinaya Ohota – Falcon Hunting) sculpted in 1872. Lanceray (1848-1886) exhibited a monumental version of his bronze sculpture at the All-Russian Industrial Art Exhibition in Moscow in 1882. It should be noted that the firm of Fabergé first participated in this event the same year and was awarded the gold medal. One of the sculptor’s three large scale versions (now at the Azerbaijan State Museum of Art, Baku) was transferred from St. Petersburg to Baku in 1926 to be installed at the Absheron Sanatorium, near where the Nobel family often stayed, at the end of the 19th century, in their dacha on the peninsula. Identical casts of this sculpture found their way to Menton, France, and the USA, location unknown. Images found for ‘Menton Alpes Maritimes, Le Parc, La Chasse au Berkout, Eugene Lanceray illustrate two variations (A & B below). These sculptures stand at the entrance of the Jardins Biovès; the second image is comparable to the Nobel kovsh. In 1908, a Falconer kovsh found its way from Russia to Madrid, Spain, when Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich (cousin of Nicholas II) headed a mission of Olviopolsky Lancers who were received by King Alfonso XIII. In the customary exchanging of military uniforms and gifts, the king was presented the uniform of a Colonel of Olviopolsky Lancers. Two additional gifts remain with the regiment. The first, a photo album of the Regiment of Olviopol Uhlans, the second gift, said to be the most coveted, is retained by the Farnese Regiment: “… It is a container of silver, richly adorned, shaped as a bottle holder or cup. Its name derives from Russian tsarscaia charasca, which becomes something like the Tsar’s cup. With it is held the charochka ceremony, a rite of welcome to the new “Farnese”.” (Romanov News, #96, 2016, 78-81)
 
 

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