a rare fabergé silver and translucent enamel combination clock and photograph frame, workmaster michael perchin, st. petersburg, circa 1890

in the form of a fan, enameled translucent sky blue over a sunray ground and applied with ribbon-tied wreathes of foliage, the circular clock with white enamel dial at the center flanked by oval apertures for photographs, fitted with photographs of a lady and gentleman, she in costume, apparently for the costume ball 1903, the borders chased with a Greek key pattern, the lower demi-lune decorated  with arrows, silver strut, marked with Cyrillic initials of workmaster, Fabergé in Cyrillic and 88 standard.

Sold, Christie's, Geneva, November 17, 1981, lot 196

Fan-shaped clocks and frames by Fabergé are only rarely found. For a fan-shaped photograph frame in the collection of H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth II, see A. Kenneth Snowman, Carl Fabergé, Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia, New York, 1979, p.134.