A JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED ENAMEL AND BOWENITE 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 TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED ENAMEL AND BOWENITE PARASOL HANDLE

BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 57859

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A JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED ENAMEL AND BOWENITE PARASOL HANDLE
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 57859
The L-form bowenite handle above a collar enamelled with white champlevé Greek key pattern on translucent red guilloché ground, between diamond-set borders, fitted with a removable later English silver-gilt blade with the mark of Tom Scott, marked on lower border
2 1/8 in. (5.5 cm.) high, excluding screw

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé 1846-1920, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1977, listed p. 118, illustrated p. 122.

Exhibited

London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Fabergé 1846-1920, 23 June-25 September 1977, case R, no. 23.

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Lot Essay

The exhibition Fabergé 1846-1920, which took place in 1977 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, was assembled on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The exhibition featured works of art from the Royal Collection, Sandringham and other prominent collections.
For other examples from this exhibition, see lots 200 and 201.

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