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BY FABERGÉ, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 14049
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A JEWELLED THREE-COLOUR GOLD AND MOSS AGATE PHOTOGRAPH FRAME
BY FABERGÉ, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 14049
A kite-shaped moss agate body applied with three-colour gold floral swags, suspended from a rose-gold ribbon bow, the oval aperture set with rose-cut diamonds, all within a gold mount cast as crossed staffs with pine cone finials, entwined with laurel branches, resting on an acanthus-shaped foot, with ivory back and a scroll strut, marked throughout with 'KF' in Cyrillic; in the original fitted Fabergé wooden case
4 1⁄8 in. (10.5 cm.) high
BY FABERGÉ, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 14049
A kite-shaped moss agate body applied with three-colour gold floral swags, suspended from a rose-gold ribbon bow, the oval aperture set with rose-cut diamonds, all within a gold mount cast as crossed staffs with pine cone finials, entwined with laurel branches, resting on an acanthus-shaped foot, with ivory back and a scroll strut, marked throughout with 'KF' in Cyrillic; in the original fitted Fabergé wooden case
4 1⁄8 in. (10.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 11 May 1982, lot 334.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Carl Fabergé. Kostbarkeiten Russischer Goldschmiedekunst der Jahrkunderwende, Zurich, 1989, p. 51, no. 87 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller, St Petersburg, 1993, p. 348, no. 233 (illustrated).
A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé, Juwelier des Zarenhofes, Heidelberg, 1995, p. 154, no. 166 (illustrated).
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 136, no. 242 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Carl Fabergé. A Private Collection, London, 2012, p. 165, no. 137 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller, St Petersburg, 1993, p. 348, no. 233 (illustrated).
A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé, Juwelier des Zarenhofes, Heidelberg, 1995, p. 154, no. 166 (illustrated).
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 136, no. 242 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Carl Fabergé. A Private Collection, London, 2012, p. 165, no. 137 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Habsburg, Feldman, The Josiane Woolf Fabergé Collection, 3 - 9 November 1988, no. 27.
Zurich, Museum Bellerive, Carl Fabergé. Kostbarkeiten Russischer Goldschmiedekunst der Jahrkunderwende, 31 May - September 1989, no. 87.
St Petersburg, Hermitage State Museum; Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller, June 1993 - April 1994, no. 233.
Hamburg, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Fabergé, Juweilier des Zarenhofes, 12 April - 25 June 1995, no. 166.
London, Spencer House, Fabergé from Private Collections - An exhibition on behalf of Music in Country Churches, 8 December 1998, no. 29.
Wilmington, Riverfront Arts Centre, Fabergé, Imperial Craftsman and his World, 14 August 2000 - 28 February 2001, no. 242.
London, Wartski, Carl Fabergé. A Private Collection, 15-25 May 2012, no. 137.
Zurich, Museum Bellerive, Carl Fabergé. Kostbarkeiten Russischer Goldschmiedekunst der Jahrkunderwende, 31 May - September 1989, no. 87.
St Petersburg, Hermitage State Museum; Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller, June 1993 - April 1994, no. 233.
Hamburg, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Fabergé, Juweilier des Zarenhofes, 12 April - 25 June 1995, no. 166.
London, Spencer House, Fabergé from Private Collections - An exhibition on behalf of Music in Country Churches, 8 December 1998, no. 29.
Wilmington, Riverfront Arts Centre, Fabergé, Imperial Craftsman and his World, 14 August 2000 - 28 February 2001, no. 242.
London, Wartski, Carl Fabergé. A Private Collection, 15-25 May 2012, no. 137.
Special Notice
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