Lot 210
210
A JEWELLED THREE-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL BONBONNIÈRE
PROPERTY FROM THE PORTLAND COLLECTION
A JEWELLED THREE-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL BONBONNIÈRE

MARKED FABERGÉ, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 12239

Details
A JEWELLED THREE-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL BONBONNIÈRE
MARKED FABERGÉ, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 12239
Circular, the hinged lid set with a domed nephrite plaque within a reeded and ribbon-tied laurel varicolour gold border, the sides of the gold-lined base enamelled in translucent pink over a wavy guilloché ground and applied with gold-set diamonds suspending green-gold laurel swags with pink-gold ribbon twists, in an associated silk and velvet-lined wood case stamped 'K. Fabergé Moscow St. Petersburg' beneath the Imperial warrant, marked under base and inside cover
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Almost certainly acquired by Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, née Gordon-Lennox (1887-1982), Duchess of Portland.
Thence by family descent.

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Lot Essay

A bonbonnière of similar neoclassically inspired design with a nephrite-set cover and red guilloché enamelled sides, formerly in the William Kazan Collection, was sold Christie's, New York, 15 April 1997, lot 69 (M.Y. Ghosn, Collection William Kazan: Objets de Vertu par Fabergé, Paris, 1996, p. 186, no. 110).

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