an unusual fabergé vari-color gold, jeweled and translucent enamel photograph frame, workmaster Johan Victor Aarne, St. Petersburg, 1899-1908

of fan shape, enameled translucent pale salmon over a guilloché ground and applied with crossed gold palm fronds and staves centered by a cabochon sapphire, the edge of the white enamel dial bordered by seed pearls, the outer border wrapped with laurel branches, marked with Cyrillic initials of workmaster, Fabergé in Cyrillic, 56 standard and 84 standard, also with scratched inventory number 5198. Contained in original fitted holly wood case, the interior silk lining stamped K. Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow, below the Imperial warrant.

Sold, Christie's, Geneva, May 19, 1992, lot 284