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A rare Fabergé silver and gold tankard, workmaster Michael Perchin, St Petersburg, circa 1880
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description
- height: 9.8cm., 4in
moulded and chased with strapwork and foliage, inset with four gold coins depicting Empress Elizabeth, pearl finial, marked Fabergé with workmaster's initials, 84 standard and with scratched inventory number 4360, pearl untested
Provenance
Christie's Geneva, 15 November 1994, lot 446.
Christie's New York, 20 October 1998, lot 49.
Catalogue Note
The well-known example in gold by Eric Kollin which was formerly in The Forbes Collection is illustrated in G. Hill, Fabergé and the Russian Master Goldsmiths, 1989, no. 190, and A. von Solodkoff, Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, 1984, p. 17, and elsewhere.