a rare fabergé gold, silver and translucent enamel desk clock, workmaster henrik wigström, st. petersburg, 1908-17

the rectangular clock enameled with alternating translucent royal blue and yellow stripes over guilloché grounds, the racing colors of Leopold de Rothschild, the white enamel dial bordered by seed pearls, the outer vari-color gold border chased with acanthus leaves, marked with initials of workmaster, Fabergé in Cyrillic and 56 standard and 91 standard, also with scratched inventory number 19662. With original fitted leather case, the silk lining stamped, Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow, London, beneath the Imperial warrant.

Sold at Fabergé's London branch, December 10, 1909 and purchased by Lady Cooper.
Sold, Christie's, Geneva, May 11, 1982, lot 338

Sotheby's is grateful to Mme. Tatiana Fabergé for providing this information from the London sales ledgers.

Alexander von Solodkoff, Fabergé's London Branch, The Connoisseur, February 1982, p.105, figs 9 & 10.