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A GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED BONBONNIÈRE

Lot 42
02.12.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 42 | A GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED BONBONNIÈRE
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
A GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED BONBONNIÈRE
BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 5791
In the form of an egg, enamelled overall in translucent yellow over a wavy guilloché ground, the hinged cover with a two-colour gold laurel-chased rim, interior set with a later panel notched to resemble grass and a miniature agate model of a rabbit set with olivine eyes, the egg set on a later gold tripod stand decorated with a gold laurel-leaf rim and set in the center with a gold and red guilloché enamel rouble of Elizabeth I, marked on the rim of the bonbonnière with workmaster's initials
1 3/8 in. (4.6 cm.) high, without the stand




Provenance

Collection of Lansdell K. Christie (1903-1965).
With A La Vieille Russie, New York.
The Forbes Collection.
Important Works of Art by Carl Fabergé from the Forbes Collection; Christie's, New York, 19 April 2002, lot 112.



Literature

H. Waterfield, C. Forbes, Fabergé From the Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, 1973, p. 42, no. 8.
H. Waterfield, C. Forbes, Fabergé Imperial Eggs and Other Fantasies, New York, 1978, p. 34, no. 11 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: Exhibition for the Benefit of the Scholarship Fund of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 1983, p. 140, no. 550 (illustrated).
A. von Solodkoff, Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, New York, 1984, p. 186 (illustrated).
G. Hill, Fabergé and the Russian Master Goldsmiths, New York, 1989, p. 22.
C. Forbes, R. Tromeur-Brenner, Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, pp. 74-75 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Mr. and Mrs. Lansdell K. Christie Collection of Fabergé, 1962-1966, no. L.62.8.130.
New York, The New York Cultural Center, Fabergé From the Forbes Magazine Collection, 1973, no. 8.
New York, A La Vieille Russie, Fabergé: Exhibition for the Benefit of the Scholarship Fund of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, 22 April – 21 May 1983, no. 550.
Fort Worth, The Kimbell Art Museum, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1983, no. 181.
Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1983-1984, no. 72.
Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1984, no. 141.
New Jersey, The Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences, Kaleidoscope Benefit, 1984.
Maryland, Government House, Maryland Blossoms in the Arts, 1997.
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