A Fabergé jewelled, gold-mounted guilloché enamel coin brooch, workmaster Oskar Pihl, Moscow, circa 1890
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November 25, 06:21 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
circular, the centre formed of a gold five rouble coin featuring the bust of Empress Catherine the Great, on a translucent red enamel ground over hatched engine-turning, the reverse dated 1773, on a gold base framed with a band of rose-cut diamonds divided by cabochon emeralds at intervals, the gold reverse with later added safety chain, in fitted case, struck to pin and clasp with workmaster's initials, 56 standard, two further indistinct marks
diam. 3.2 cm; 1.1/4 in.
Mrs J. Pipier;
Bonhams London, 28 November 2018, lot 75 (Previously offered with correspondence from Kenneth Snowman at Wartski, a photographic record signed by Henry Charles Bainbridge, together with the announcement, invitation and catalogue of Wartski's 1949 loan exhibition)
London, Wartski, A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Carl Fabergé, 8 - 25 November 1949, no. 152
Henry Charles Bainbridge, Peter Carl Faberge: Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court, London, 1949, p. 54
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