MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MIKHAIL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 59691
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 number 59691
Rectangular, enameled in translucent strawberry red over a wavy guilloché ground, centering an oval aperture within a dot and dash border, enclosing a photograph of Marina Chaliapin, the corners with reserves enameled in translucent white over a wavy guilloché ground applied with gold berried laurel branches, alternating with applied gold rosettes, all within an egg and dart border, with a tied ribbon crest, on toupie feet, with gold openwork strut and ivory backing, in an A La Vieille Russie case, marked on edge of frame and strut
4 3/8 in. (11.2 cm.) high
Marked Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Mikhail Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1890, scratched inventory number 59691
Rectangular, enameled in translucent strawberry red over a wavy guilloché ground, centering an oval aperture within a dot and dash border, enclosing a photograph of Marina Chaliapin, the corners with reserves enameled in translucent white over a wavy guilloché ground applied with gold berried laurel branches, alternating with applied gold rosettes, all within an egg and dart border, with a tied ribbon crest, on toupie feet, with gold openwork strut and ivory backing, in an A La Vieille Russie case, marked on edge of frame and strut
4 3/8 in. (11.2 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, April 22-May 21, 1983, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1983, No. 80, p. 49, 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. 80.
Special Notice
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Sale Room Notice
Please note the correct scratched inventory number appears to be 59691, not 59697, as printed in the catalogue.
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