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BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF ERIK KOLLIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890
Details
A JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL AND NEPHRITE HAND SEAL
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF ERIK KOLLIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890
The circular fluted nephrite handle with gold ropework borders, with a diamond and cabochon ruby-set finial, mounted on a nephrite stem, with green gold scroll band, set with rose-cut diamonds and cabochon rubies within ropework borders, the lower border enamelled in pink over guilloché ground engraved with scrolling foliage, the gold matrix vacant, marked on mount; in a fitted Wartski case
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF ERIK KOLLIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890
The circular fluted nephrite handle with gold ropework borders, with a diamond and cabochon ruby-set finial, mounted on a nephrite stem, with green gold scroll band, set with rose-cut diamonds and cabochon rubies within ropework borders, the lower border enamelled in pink over guilloché ground engraved with scrolling foliage, the gold matrix vacant, marked on mount; in a fitted Wartski case
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christies, Geneva, 19 November 1970, lot 126.
With Wartski, London.
With Wartski, London.
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