Lot 34
  • 34

A Fabergé two-colour gold-mounted nephrite pentray, workmaster: Erik Kollin, St. Petersburg, circa 1890

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • length: 18cm, 7in.
the curved rectangular hardstone panel with chased rope-twist gold mounts, supported on arched legs with hooved terminals, with workmaster's initials and scratched inventory number 40583, 56 standard

Exhibited

Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé Hofjuwelier de Zaren, 5 December 1986 - 22 February 1987, cat. no. 184 
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé-Cartier Rivalen am Zarenhof, 28 November 2003 - 12 April 2004, cat. no.  5

Literature

Géza von Habsburg, Fabergé Hofjuwelier de Zaren, Munich, 1986, p. 159
Géza von Habsburg, Fabergé-Cartier Rivalen am Zarenhof, Munich, 2003, p. 148

Condition

There is a hairline crack at one end of the nephrite tray 1.5cm long.
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