A Fabergé gilded silver, guilloché enamel and wood clock, workmaster Johan Victor Aarne, St. Petersburg, circa 1895

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

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Description

light or fruit wood, enamel, glass, clockworks (steel/brass), silk, card
height 8 5/8 in., 22 cm

the shaped wooden body tapering to flaring foot, applied with gilded silver ribbon-tied floral swags descending from an urn and surrounding a clock with white enamel face, black Arabic chapters and a bezel enameled strawberry red over an engine-turned ground, struck with workmaster's initials, Fabergé in Cyrillic, 88 standard, and scratched inventory number 1270, contained in original silk-covered and lined box

Catalogue Note

For a comparable clock by Aarne, see T. Fabergé, et al, Fabergé: A Comprehensive Reference Book, Geneva, 2012, p. 120.