Lot 98
  • 98

A Fabergé Carved Rhodonite Small Desk Clock Mounted in Gold, Silver, and Enamel, Workmaster Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, circa 1910

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • the base marked with initials of workmaster, Fabergé in Latin letters, and 88 standard; the key with 72 standard; also with scratched inventory number 24344
  • rhodonite, gold, gilder silver, enamel
  • Height: 1 3/4 in.
  • 4.5 cm
rectangular, gold-mounted rhodonoite clock, the dial with opalescent oyster enamel over a sunburst ground, black Arabic chapters, and Louis XV-style gold hands, the bezel with green guilloché enamel, the base with key-clip holding the gold key

Provenance

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, March 5-6, 1981, lot 145.

Literature

For a similar miniature clock in lapis lazuli made by Wigström, see Gerard Hill, Fabergé and the Russian Master Goldsmiths, New York, 1989, no. 152.

Condition

small crack in the hardstone across the top and back of the piece
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