Lot 244
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A GOLD-MOUNTED, CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL AND AVENTURINE QUARTZ CANE HANDLE
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 2… Read more 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 GOLD-MOUNTED, CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL AND AVENTURINE QUARTZ CANE HANDLE

BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890

Details
A GOLD-MOUNTED, CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL AND AVENTURINE QUARTZ CANE HANDLE
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890
The tapering cylindrical hardstone handle above a gold collar enamelled in dark blue with the inscription 'MIKHAILOVSKOE', with wood shaft, marked on lower border
2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 1998, lot 287.
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

The village of Mikhailovskoe, in the Pskov region, was home to the ancestral estate of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), who lived and worked there during some of his most prolific years as a poet.

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