Russian Works of Art, Fabergé and Icons

Russian Works of Art, Fabergé and Icons

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Property Formerly in the collection of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza

A Fabergé varicoloured gold-mounted nephrite letter-opener, workmaster Michael Perkhin, St Petersburg, circa 1890

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November 30, 06:31 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

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Property Formerly in the collection of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza

A Fabergé varicoloured gold-mounted nephrite letter-opener, workmaster Michael Perkhin, St Petersburg, circa 1890



the tapering nephrite blade with red, yellow and green gold mounts cast and chased with neoclassical motifs, struck on the mounts with workmaster's initials, 56 standard, with scratched inventory number 3232

length 24cm; 9½in.

Christie’s, Geneva, 19 November 1974, lot 269
Baron Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano, and thence by descent
A. Somers-Cocks & C. Truman, Renaissance Jewels, Gold Boxes and Objets de vertu in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, London, 1984, no. 110, pp. 312-313, illustrated