A SILVER-GILT GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL MINIATURE VASE
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A SILVER-GILT GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL MINIATURE VASE

MARKED K. FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF ANDERS (ANTTI) NEVALAINEN, ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 17338

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A SILVER-GILT GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL MINIATURE VASE
MARKED K. FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF ANDERS (ANTTI) NEVALAINEN, ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 17338
Cylindrical, enamelled in translucent strawberry red over a wavy guilloché ground, the sides applied with five ribbon-tied laurel swags, suspended from rosettes with ribbon crests, between ribbon-tied reeded borders, marked under base, also with import marks
3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, Geneva, 27 April 1977, lot 471.
Literature
G. von Habsburg and A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé: Court Jeweler to the Tsars, Fribourg, 1979, p. 23, pl. 23.
Special Notice
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Lot Essay

A miniature vase of similar scale and design and with the scratched inventory number 18258, is held in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 47.20.291. See G. von Habsburg, Fabergé in America, New York, 1996, p. 147, no. 135.

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