AN IMPERIAL GEM-SET AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED BELL-PUSH
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ID 1507840
Lot 1 | AN IMPERIAL GEM-SET AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED BELL-PUSH
Estimate value
20000GBP £ 20 000 – 30 000
BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 2466
The domed body enamelled in lilac over a wavy guilloché ground, centring a guilloché enamelled oyster border decorated with a gold paillon laurel band, surmounted with a gadrooned hexagonal mount set with a cabochon moonstone push-piece, on a circular spreading base mounted with two-colour gold ribbon-tied laurel swags, on three reeded ball feet, marked under base with 'Fabergé' in Cyrillic and workmaster's initials
2 1/8 in. (5.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928), purchased from the St Petersburg branch of Fabergé on 17 December 1899 for 130 roubles.
Imperial and Royal Presents; Sotheby's, London, 24 November 2008, lot 20.
Literature
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé, Munich, 1986, p. 226, no. 420 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé - Cartier, Rivalen am Zarenhof, Munich, 2003, p. 169, no. 78 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé, 5 December 1986 - 22 February 1987, no. 420.
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé - Cartier, Rivalen am Zarenhof, 28 November 2003 - 12 April 2004, no. 78.
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Gold, Plastic |
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| Category: | Bell |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Enamel, Gold, Plastic |
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| Category: | Bell |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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