Lot 378
  • 378

A Fabergé jewelled gold and enamel desk frame, workmaster Victor Aarne, St Petersburg, 1899-1908

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • height: 5.5cm, 2 1/8 in
easel form, enamelled in translucent brown over radiating chevron engine-turning, the aperture bordered in rose-cut diamonds and flanked at the corners by seed pearls, surmounted by an overflowing basket of flowers, with original photograph of Prince Christropher of Greece with his daughter, mother-of-pearl back, silver-gilt strut, marked Fabergé with workmaster's initials and scratched inventory number 3338, 56 standard

Provenance

Christie's Geneva, 17 May 1995, lot 399
Wartski, London