Lot 319
  • 319

A Fabergé Gilded Silver and Palisander Wood Photograph Frame

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • the reverse inscribed with inventory number 53829
  • wood, glass, photograph, gilded silver
  • Height 4 5/8 in.
  • 11.8 cm
of heart shape, the rectangular aperture covered with beveled glass and enclosed with laurel chased bezel surmounted by a bow knot, the reverse with shaped wood strut

Exhibited

Munich, Fabergé: Hofjuwelier der Zaren, 1986-87, p. 110, no. 23

Literature

G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Hofjuwelier der Zaren, Munich, 1986, p. 110, no. 23.

Condition

photograph inside frame faded and with frayed corner, and with one loose screw
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