A Jewelled Gold and Guilloché Enamel Pin

BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST. PETERSBURG, 1903-1904

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A Jewelled Gold and Guilloché Enamel Pin
By Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, 1903-1904
Diamond shaped, centering the monogram 'EM' on a translucent blue sunburst guilloché ground, within a diamond-set border, surmounted by an Imperial crown, in the original silk and velvet lined wood box stamped in Russian 'Fabergé St. Petersburg Moscow, London' beneath the Imperial warrant, marked on pin
3 in. (7.6 cm.) long (2)

Provenance

Christie's, New York, 20 October 1999, lot 83.
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The initials are probably those of Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mavrikievna (1865-1927), born Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, who married Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, the grandson of Emperor Nicholas I, in 1884.

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