Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: A Fabergé silver-gilt mounted glass vase, workmaster Julius Rappoport, St Petersburg, 1899-1903

the baluster-shaped body formed of glass imitating smokey quartz, the neck with chased ribbon-tied festoons hung from a leaf-tip border below beading, the edges in the form of satyr masks, connected to the neck mount by chased and engraved arrows, the gadrooned cover surmounted by a pine-cone finial, the square base with lion's paw feet, struck to base, neck and cover with Fabergé in Cyrillic below Imperial warrant, workmaster's initials, 88 standard, scratched inventory number 6189

height 19cm; 7 1/2 in.