Fabergé, Gold Boxes & Vertu

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A Fabergé jewelled two-colour gold-mounted smokey quartz and guilloché enamel scent bottle, Mikhail Perkhin, St Petersburg, 1899-1903

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May 15, 11:09 AM GMT

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18,000 - 25,000 CHF

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Lot Details

Description

the base formed of curved smokey quartz, the two-colour gold mount chased with laurel wreaths, the surface of the curved lid of translucent peach enamel over hatched engine-turning, surmounted by a cabochon ruby set on a bed of rose-cut diamonds, rose gold interior, fitted with a gadrooned gold and cork stopper, struck to inside lid and mount with workmaster's initials, 56 standard

height 4.8cm; 1 7/8 in.

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Christie's New York, 20 October 1998, lot 15

For two similar scent bottles, one also executed in smoky quartz, and one with a lid of a similar style, see U. Tillander-Godenhielm, Fabergé: The Twilight Years: Drawings and Objects from the Second Henrik Wigström Album, East Sussex, 2023, p.84.