A Fabergé silver table lighter, workmaster Julius Rappoport, St Petersburg, circa 1890

Estimate

32,000 - 38,000 GBP

Sold

47,500 GBP

bidding is closed

Description

silver

cast and chased as a standing rhinoceros, the detachable horn fitted with the wick channel, struck with workmaster's initials and Fabergé in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial warrant, 88 standard, scratched inventory number 9330

Provenance

Christie's New York, 19 April 2002, lot 202

Sotheby's London, 3 June 2014, lot 652