RUSSIAN SILVER ARTELS
(MOSCOW)
The artels in Imperial Russia were semi formal co-operatives in different fields like agriculture, fishing,
mining, timber industry and gold/silver smithing. Nowadays they are all forgotten except for the gold/silver
artels due to the fine objects they produced and still exsist.
An artel is a factory but the opposite of mass production. It produced unique objects or pieces of art of
very high quality. An artel could not have less than 5 owners/attendants. However, you were allowed to hire
more people but only for a short limited period. An artel had its own rules and you were obliged to obey
them. Everyone working there was collectively liable for all the operations in the artel. You could work
in an artel from the age of 17 on.
All known master workshops or artels for silver, gold as well as icons with oklads and enamel cloisonné and
guilloché objects towards the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century are listed in these pages, with
details of styles used.
The artels’ series of numbers is not complete. Until today there is no evidence of the existence of a
silver artel carrying any of the following numbers: 10, 16, 17, 19, 21, 24, 27 or 30. Why the series of
numbers is incomplete is not known.
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MOSCOW SILVER ARTELS
1899 - 1917 SILVER MARKS
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(text and images by Postnikov and Qrts )
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MARKS - DATES - INFORMATION
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1st ARTEL
1.M.C.P.A.
date: 1899-1908
Icons with oklads in enamel
Traditional style. Very famous artel
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1st SILVER ARTEL
Julius Rappoport’s, workshop later overtaken by
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1st SILVER ARTEL
date: Mentioned 1915-1917
Working partly with enamelling in cloisonné but also in the plique-a-jour and the
guilloché techniques.
High quality silver items. Icons with oklads in enamel. The mark of 1st Artel is often found
together with the mark of I.Vasiliev 
One of the most famous workshops in Russia. Court supplier. Traditional style
Not to be mixed up with J. Rappoport’s workshop
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2nd JEWELLER ARTEL
date: Mentioned 1915-1917
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2nd ARTEL
2A
date: 1912-1916
Wine pitcher, vodka cups, match box holders, napkin rings, Samorodok, enamel, cloisonné
Art nouveau, Traditional style
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3rd ARTEL
3A (?)
date: ~1908-
Enamelled objects in guilloché technique.
Cigarette cases, table bells, boxes and photoframes.
Very few objects known.
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4th ARTEL
4.A. 4M.A
date: Mentioned 1906 (1908?)
Salt-cellars, tableware
Traditional style
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5th ARTEL
5A
date: After 1912-1916
Napkin rings in Samorodok, bowls
Art nouveau, Traditional style
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5th JEWELLER'S ARTEL
date: 1912-1915
Objects in gold
Art nouveau, Traditional style
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6th ARTEL
6A
6MA
date: 1915
Working mostly with enamel cloisonné but also in plique-a-jour and guilloché
techniques.
Tea spoons
One of the most famous in Russia, court supplier of high quality (enameled) silver.
Traditional style, complete enamel covering, olive-green, blue, cream
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7th ARTEL
7A
date: After 1908
Working partly with enamel cloisonné but also in plique-a-jour and guilloche techniques.
Icons with oklads in enamel
Traditional style
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9th ARTEL
9A
date: Mentioned 1910-1916
Tea-strainer, sugar tongs
Art nouveau, Traditional style
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11th ARTEL
11A 11MA 11M.A.
date: After 1908
Working mostly with enamel cloisonné but also in plique-a-jour and the guilloché
techniques.
Tea/coffee spoons, tea/coffee service sets, kovshi, sugar spoons and tea strainers.
One of the most famous ones, enamel, cloisonné and guilloche, high quality silver
objects, in class with court suppliers’ work. Fabergés’s supplier.
Traditional style, complete enamel covering, art nouveau influence with triangular and
rectangular enamel cells, volutes.
Spirals, silver beads, green ochre, violet- and-cream tints in a hazy "water-colour"
style
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12th ARTEL
12A (?)
date: unknown
Specialised in engravings in silver, cigarette cases
Exist proofs of its existence
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13th ARTEL
13A
date: Mentioned 1915-1917
Coffee pots, spoons, napkin rings, vodka cups
Art nouveau, Traditional style
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14th ARTEL
14A
date: Mentioned 1915-1917
Frames, settings for vases
Art nouveau, Traditional style. Supplier for others
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15th ARTEL
15A
F/S
date: Mentioned 1915-1917
Frames, settings for vases, cake plates christal/silver mounting
Art nouveau, Traditional style.Supplier for others
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18th ARTEL
18A
date: After 1908
Vodka cups
Traditional style
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20th ARTEL
20A
date: After 1908
Working mostly with enamel cloisonné but also in plique-a-jour and the guilloché techniques.
Tea/coffee and sugar spoons, tea/coffee service sets, tea strainers, kovshi
Traditional style, similar to the 11th Artel in its Art nouveau style, often too with quite traditional flowers alongside the Art nouveau bands. Shaded blues
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22nd ARTEL
22A
date: After 1908
Salt-cellar, napkin rings, vodka cups
Traditional style
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23rd ARTEL
23A
date: After 1908
Tea glass holder, napkin rings
Art nouveau, Traditional style
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25th ARTEL
25A
date: After 1908
Creamer, sugar bowls, tea-strainer
Traditional style
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26th ARTEL
26A (?)
date: unknown
Working mostly with enamelling in cloisonné but also in the plique-a-jour and the guilloché techniques
Existance proofed
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28th ARTEL
28A
date: After 1908
Tea glass holder
Traditional style
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29th ARTEL
29A
date: Mentioned 1915-1917
Sugar bowl
Traditional style
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31st ARTEL
31A
date: Mentioned 1915-1917
Sugar bowl
Traditional style
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