MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MIKHAIL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBERS 14534 AND 7245
Details
A Two-Color Gold-Mounted Guilloché Enamel Photograph Frame
Marked Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Mikhail Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1890, scratched inventory numbers 14534 and 7245
Rectangular, enameled in translucent yellow over a wavy guilloché ground, centering a conforming seed pearl-set aperture enclosing a later photograph of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, all within a laurel-chased two-color gold border, set with rosettes at the corners, with gold lyre-form strut and ivory backing, marked on edge of frame and strut
3 15/16 in (10 cm.) high
Marked Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Mikhail Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1890, scratched inventory numbers 14534 and 7245
Rectangular, enameled in translucent yellow over a wavy guilloché ground, centering a conforming seed pearl-set aperture enclosing a later photograph of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, all within a laurel-chased two-color gold border, set with rosettes at the corners, with gold lyre-form strut and ivory backing, marked on edge of frame and strut
3 15/16 in (10 cm.) high
Provenance
Purchased A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1960s.
By direct descent to the present owner.
By direct descent to the present owner.
Literature
Fabergé, a Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Design, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1983, p. 45, No. 71, illustrated.
Exhibited
Fabergé, a Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Design, April 22-May 21, 1983, No. 71.
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