A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED, GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL AND ROCK CRYSTAL PARASOL HANDLE

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Property from the Vertical Art Collection, the proceeds to benefit the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation and the University of California San Francisco Thoracic Oncology Lung Cancer Program (Lots 239-250). This cane handle is one of twelve lots offered from the Vertical Art Collection, formed by an American private collector who chooses to remain anonymous. On November 30th a larger group of works from the same collection will be offered for sale at Christie's New York. These sales reveal but a glimpse of a collection that only became known more broadly in 2008 with the publication of Vertical Art: The Enduring Beauty of Antique Canes and Walking Sticks. The startling tableaux by photographer Umberto Barone depicts canes of semi-precious stones inset with diamonds within a dazzling panorama of canes of diverse periods, styles and materials.

A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED, GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL AND ROCK CRYSTAL PARASOL HANDLE

BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 59293

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A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED, GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL AND ROCK CRYSTAL PARASOL HANDLE
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 59293
The tau-form rock crystal handle above a collar enamelled in translucent pink over a wavy guilloché ground, painted in sepia with a band of interwoven laurel vines, between diamond-set borders, with wood shaft, marked on lower border
2 in. (5 cm.) high

Provenance

Collection of the late Sir Charles Clore, Christie's, Geneva, 13 November 1985, lot 64.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 1998, lot 290.

Special Notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

For a comparable parasol handle in the collection of Princess Benedikte of Denmark, see G. von Habsburg, Fabergé Cartier, Rivalen am Zarenhof, Munich, 2003-2004, p. 163, no. 58.

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