Lot 173
  • 173

A RUSSIAN TWO-COLOR GOLD AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL SMALL FRAME, FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890 |

Estimate
25,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • struck with workmaster's initials, Fabergé in Cyrillic, 56 standard, and with scratched inventory number 52711
  • height 2 5/8 in.
  • 6.6 cm
in Louis XVI style, on two bun feet, pale blue enamel over waved engine-turned ground, applied with ribbon-tied laurel swag, the back with scroll strut topped by hanging ring

Provenance

The Kazan Collection, Christies New York, April 15, 1997, lot 53

Literature

M.Y. Ghosn, Objets de Vertu par Fabergé, Paris, 1996, no. 40

Condition

pin-prick flaw to enamel above left swag, ivory back has been replaced with ivorine, otherwise good
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