A Fabergé silver-gilt-mounted nephrite photo frame, workmaster Michael Perkhin, St Petersburg, 1899-1903

A Fabergé silver-gilt-mounted nephrite photo frame, workmaster Michael Perkhin, St Petersburg, 1899-1903

rectangular, with outset corners, centring an oval aperture within a ribbon-tied reeded bezel border, surmounted by a ribbon crest suspending ribbon-tied foliate swags and set with rosettes, the back with a scroll strut, in a fitted Wartski case, struck to the lower edge with workmaster’s initials and Fabergé, scratched inventory number indistinct

height 14cm; 5½ in.