A Fabergé Silver and Enamel Kovsh, Moscow, circa 1890

oval, with raised ends, enamelled with stylized lions in shaped cartouches against a border of strapwork and foliate ornament on a blue ground; the pierced, shaped handle enamelled with polychrome floral ornament, struck K. Fabergé in Cyrillic with Imperial Warrant and 84 standard, also with scratched inventory number 10928

Sotheby's New York, 6 December 1995, lot 449

the enamel bright and the figures lively, with one small loss to the enamel of a white cartouche around one of the lions and with two small dings to the silver body
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See, for comparison, a similar kovsh sold Lyon & Turnbull London, 23 November 2008, lot 68, illustrated.