Lot 128
128
A JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL CIGARETTE CASE
A JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL CIGARETTE CASE

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 7191

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A JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL CIGARETTE CASE
MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 7191
Étui form, enamelled with ten panels of translucent eau-de-nil over a wavy guilloché ground within white champlevé enamelled borders, enclosed in stippled gold bands enamelled with translucent green stylised foliage and red dash and white pellet borders, the upper and lower borders enamelled with white pellets, the hinged cover with rose-gold mounted rose-cut diamond push-piece, in the original silk and velvet-lined wood box stamped in Russian 'Fabergé St Petersburg Moscow, Odessa' beneath the Imperial warrant, marked on flange and inside cover
3 5/8 in. (9 cm.) long
Provenance
Objets de vitrine from the Collection of Mrs George Keppel; Sotheby's, Geneva, 11 May 1989, lot 19.
The Kazan Collection of Fabergé; Christie's, New York, 15 April 1997, lot 106.
Literature
M.Y. Ghosn, Objets de Vertu par Fabergé, Paris, 1996, pp. 110-111, no. 29, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Alice Keppel, eighth daughter of Admiral Sir William Edmonstone (1810-1888), was born in 1869 and spent her early years at the family seat, Duntreath Castle in Stirlingshire. When she was twenty-two she married, the Hon. George Keppel, the 7th Earl of Albemarle (1865-1947).

In 1898 Mrs Keppel first met the future Edward VII, then the 56-year old heir to the throne. She went on to become the king's most famous mistress. Edward VII and Mrs Keppel both used cigarette cases by Fabergé. Over her lifetime Mrs Keppel assembled an impressive collection of objets de vitrine, many of which were enamelled cigarette cases by Fabergé of similar Louis XVI design to the present lot. Mrs Keppel's collection of vertu was sold Sotheby's, Geneva, 11 May 1989.

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