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Materials:

guilloché enamel two-color gold-mounted silver

Measurements:

4.33 in. (11.00 cm.) (height)

Description:

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Markings:

Marked Fabergé, with The Workmaster's Mark of Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1908-1917, scratched inventory number 4744, and The Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, 1909; plaque marked with green underglaze factory mark on the reverse, dated 1909

Condition:

cover set with a porcelain plaque painted in sepia with a portrait of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna simulating a cameo, all within green gold laurel borders, the outer border also set with rose gold rosettes at corners, with a rose-cut diamond-set thumb-piece, base and on rim; the body and hinged cover enamelled in translucent pale blue over a wavy Guilloché Ground, marked inside cover; in a fitted wartski case

Exhibited:

Helsinki, Museum of Arts and Crafts, 1991. St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum; Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller, 18 June 1993 – 10 April 1994, no. 17. Helsinki, Smycken: Från Det Kejserliga S:t Petersburg, 1995, no. 146. Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Tsar, 6 June 1996 – 19 October 1997, no. 61. Stockholm, Christie’s, 1996. Washington DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fabergé and Finland: Exquisite Objects, 1996. Lahti, The Lahti Art Museum, Fabergé: Loistavaa kultasepäntaidetta, 14 March – 4 May 1997. New York, A La Vieille Russie, 2000. New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2000. Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé - Cartier, Rivalen am Zarenhof, 28 November 2003 – 12 April 2004, no. 190. Tampere, Museums in Finland and Moscow Kremlin Museum, The Era of Fabergé, 17 June – 1 October 2006, no. 60. Shanghai, Christie’s, October 2014.

Literature:

A. K. Snowman, The Art of Karl Faberge, London, 1962, no. 96 (illustrated). G. von Habsburg, M. Lopato, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller, Milan, 1993, p. 183, no. 17 (illustrated). E. Welander-Berggren, Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Tsar, Stockholm, 1996, p. 120, no. 61 (illustrated). U. Tillander-Godenhielm, Smycken: Från Det Kejserliga S:t Petersburg, Helsinki, 1996, p. 152, no. 146 (illustrated). U. Tillander-Godenhielm et al., Golden Years of Fabergé: Drawings and Objects from the Wigström Workshop, Paris, 2000, p. 43 (illustrated). G. von Habsburg, Fabergé - Cartier, Rivalen am Zarenhof, Munich, 2003, pp. 202-203, no. 190 (illustrated). M. Saloniemi, U. Tillander-Godenhielm, T. Boettger, The Era of Fabergé, Tampere, 2006, p. 161, no. 60 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Acquired by the Imperial Cabinet from Fabergé on 2 August 1914 for 760 roubles. Collection of the Hon. Mr and Mrs W.H. Watson-Armstrong. With Wartski, London. Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 18 July 1988, lot 313. Acquired at the above by the father of the present owner.