A Fabergé two-colour gold, guilloché enamel, bowenite and tortoiseshell cane handle, circa 1900

the T-shaped hardstone handle mounted with a collar enamelled in translucent raspberry over wavy engine-turning, within seed pearl-set bands and a border of chased laurel leaves, with scratched inventory number 8145

Four seed pearls are lacking from the border of the handle. The tortoiseshell cane a little chipped and damaged.
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Although unmarked, this cane handle is unequivocally by Fabergé, most probably from the workshop of Michael Perchin. The striking opalescent raspberry-red enamel, one of  the many subtle new colours Fabergé added to the enameller's palette, was used both by Perchin and his successor Wigström (for a notebook case and pencil holder in the British Royal Collection by these workmasters see Caroline de Guitaut, Fabergé in the Royal Collection, London, 2003, cat. nos 332-333). On this cane handle the enamel is off-set by a band of finely chased laurel leaves.