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MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 45171
Details
A Three-Colour Gold, Hardstone and Guilloché Enamel Box
Marked Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St Petersburg, circa 1890, scratched inventory number 45171
Circular, the sides enamelled with rectangular panels of translucent orange over a wavy guilloché ground within white enamel borders, alternating with lozenges of translucent blue enamel, the hinged cover set with an oval sardonyx cameo, finely carved with a bust of an emperor, possibly Alexander I, surrounded by graduated diamonds, all within bands of ribbon-tied laurels, chased flower-heads and guilloché enamel, the base also enamelled in translucent red, marked on bezel
2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) diameter
Marked Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St Petersburg, circa 1890, scratched inventory number 45171
Circular, the sides enamelled with rectangular panels of translucent orange over a wavy guilloché ground within white enamel borders, alternating with lozenges of translucent blue enamel, the hinged cover set with an oval sardonyx cameo, finely carved with a bust of an emperor, possibly Alexander I, surrounded by graduated diamonds, all within bands of ribbon-tied laurels, chased flower-heads and guilloché enamel, the base also enamelled in translucent red, marked on bezel
2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) diameter
Literature
H. and S. Berry-Hill, Antique Gold Boxes, Their Lore and Their Lure, New York, 1953, p. 211, illustrated.
A La Vieille Russie, exhibition catalogue, Fabergé, a Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Design, April 22-May 21, 1983, New York, 1983, No. 212, p. 78, illustrated.
A La Vieille Russie, exhibition catalogue, Fabergé, a Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Design, April 22-May 21, 1983, New York, 1983, No. 212, p. 78, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, 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. 212.
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