A SILVER-MOUNTED CLAY BRICK MATCH HOLDER
02.12.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1507835
Lot 24 | A SILVER-MOUNTED CLAY BRICK MATCH HOLDER
Estimate value
30000GBP £ 30 000 – 50 000
BY FABERGÉ, PROBABLY MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890
The rectangular clay brick with two match compartments and textured front for striking, mounted with a cast silver figure of a baby satyr, playing an aulos, the base of the brick inscribed in Russian 'Factory / [of] A. Gusarev / in Moscow', apparently unmarked; in a fitted Fabergé wooden case (possibly associated)
3 ¾ in. (9.6 cm.) long
Provenance
Property from a Private Collection, Netherlands; Sotheby's, London, 30 November 2011, lot 570.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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