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a rare fabergé bowenite and silver revolving photograph frame, workmaster Johan Victor Aarne, St. Petersburg, 1899-1908
Estimate
80,000 - 140,000 USD
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Description
- height 7 5/8 in. 19.4 cm
the domed bowenite base applied with ribbon-tied swags of foliage, the border chased with acanthus leaves, the central stem with eight double-sided hinged photograph frames, each with ribbon-tied reeded edge, with pinecone finial, marked with Cyrillic initials of workmaster, Fabergé in Cyrillic and 88 standard.
Provenance
Sold, Sotheby's, Geneva, November 17, 1992, lot 258
Catalogue Note
A similar revolving frame in bowenite and silver by Aarne, formerly in the Forbes Collection, is reproduced by Gerard Hill, Fabergé and the Russian Master Goldsmiths, Levin, New York, 1989.