Lot 158
  • 158

A Fabergé Gilded Silver and Enamel Miniature Photograph Frame, Workmaster Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1900

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • marked with workmaster's initials, Fabergé in Cyrillic, and 88 standard.  Also with scratched inventory number 49495.  Contained in fitted box
  • Gilded silver, enamel, photograph, mammoth ivory
  • Height 3 1/4 in.
  • 8.1 cm
rectangular with oval aperture, enameled translucent cerulean blue over sunburst engraving and applied with ribbon-bound swags and laurel chased bezel, the outer frame with beaded border and ribbon-tied surmount, set on two spindle feet and with gilded silver strut formed as the initial A for Emperor Alexander III, the aperture with a photograph of Emperor Alexander III in uniform with the Cross of St. George at his neck

Provenance

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, daughter of Emperor Alexander III
Agnete Kulikovsky, her daughter-in-law
Wartski, London
Sotheby's, Geneva, November 18-19, 1996, lot 488

Condition

overall good condition, some slight losses to enamel near right edge of frame
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