A Fabergé rock crystal and enamel cane handle with jewelled gold mounts, workmaster Michael Perchin, St Petersburg, circa 1900

tau-form handle, the collar painted with white lilies within cloisons on a pink-shaded yellow enamel ground over textured engine-turning, the gold borders banded with rose-cut diamonds, marked Fabergé in Cyrillic, with workmaster's initials, 56 standard, in original Fabergé fitted case

Generally good condition. There is one chip to the rock crystal at the end of the handle, measuring approx. 3mm x 2mm, and another tiny chip. The enamel with minor losses, which do not detract, owing to the nature of this particular technique.
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This enamelling, of Art Nouveau-style foliage within cloisons on a pink graduating to yellow ground suggesting a dawn sky, is of a rare type seen on objects by Perchin and Victor Aarne and produced for a limited time circa 1900.

For a similarly decorated Perchin bell-push, see Sotheby's Geneva, 17 November 1998, Lot 323.  Examples seen of works by Aarne tend to be more elaborate, including a clock enamelled on a ground engine-turned with a rising sun, illustrated, G. Von Habsburg, Faberge: Imperial Craftsman and His World, 2000, p.276; and another clock, Sotheby's Geneva, 17 November 1998, Lot 322. Compare also with the Aarne frame, enamelled with three swallows flying above bullrushes, Sotheby's Geneva, 15 November 1995, Lot 543.