BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF OSCAR PIHL, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890

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A JEWELLED GOLD AND SILVER LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY BROOCH
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF OSCAR PIHL, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890
Designed as a lily-of-the-valley spray, the diamond-set flowers mounted as pendants, marked on pin and mount; in the original silk and velvet-lined red leather case stamped 'K. Fabergé Moscow St Petersburg' beneath the Imperial warrant
2 in. (5.2 cm.) long

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Bukowski, Helsinki, 14-15 October 1987, lot 496.
Acquired at the above by the father of the present owner.

Exhibited

Helsinki, 1988.
Helsinki, Museum of Arts and Crafts, 1991.
Stockholm, Christie’s, 1996.
Lahti, The Lahti Art Museum, Fabergé: Loistavaa kultasepäntaidetta, 14 March – 4 May 1997.

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Lot Essay

A comparable brooch was sold Christie’s, Geneva, 19 November 1991, lot 346. An original Fabergé design for this brooch was sold Christie’s, London, 5 April 1960, lot 173, see A. von Solodkoff, et al., Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, New York, 1984, p. 21.

As a symbol of spring's arrival, the lily-of-the-valley was a favourite flower of the Empresses. A Fabergé enamelled brooch, set with a similar diamond sprig of the flower, was given by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna to Marion Louisa 'Pollie' Delmé-Radcliffe, Baroness Ungern-Sternberg in June 1898 (Christie's, London, 29 November 2010, lot 220)

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