Lot 176
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A RUSSIAN TWO-COLOR GOLD MOUNTED NEPHRITE FRAME, FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890 |

Estimate
12,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • struck with workmaster's initials, Fabergé in Cyrillic, 56 standard, with scratched inventory number 44966 on base rim and on ribbon bow
  • height 3 3/16 in.
  • 8 cm
the translucent nephrite panel within border of laurel, tied at the centers and with rosettes at corners, topped by a ribbon bow, beaded central oval framing a miniature of a young woman signed Th Meyendorff, the back with scrolled strut, in fitted wood case stamped in Russian Fabergé St. Petersburg Moscow

Provenance

The Kazan Collection, Christie's New York, April 15, 1997, lot 84

Literature

John Booth, The Art of Fabergé, New York, 1990, p. 170
M.Y. Ghosn, Objets de Vertu par Fabergé, Paris, 1996, no. 45

Condition

stain - glue? - at bottom of miniature, tiny crack to gold ribbon bow behind roundel, scratches and staining to wood box, otherwise good, nicely marked and nephrite attractively translucent; the ivory back replaced with ivorine
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