A LARGE AND RARE JEWELED AND GOLD-MOUNTED BLOODSTONE SNUFF BOX SHAPED AS A HEAD OF A HIPPO

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ID 1538944
Лот 470 | A LARGE AND RARE JEWELED AND GOLD-MOUNTED BLOODSTONE SNUFF BOX SHAPED AS A HEAD OF A HIPPO
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$ 100 000 – 150 000
A LARGE AND RARE JEWELED AND GOLD-MOUNTED BLOODSTONE SNUFF BOX SHAPED AS A HEAD OF A HIPPO
BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890
Realistically carved as the head of a hippo, the gold mounts and hinged cover chased with scrolls and wavy border, with diamond and ruby-set thumbpiece, marked on flange with 'Fabergé' in Cyrillic and workmaster's initials, also with French import marks
3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm.) long




Provenance

Countess Vera Sergeevna Zubova (1845-1925).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 1 May 1974, lot 218.
With A La Vieille Russie, New York.
Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken from the above, 11 February 2019.



Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: Exhibition for the Benefit of the Scholarship Fund of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 1983, pp. 122-123, no. 452 (illustrated).
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé, Munich, 1986, p. 178, no. 266 (illustrated).
G. von Habsburg, M. Lopato, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweler, London, 1993, p. 355, no. 247 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Tsar, Stockholm, 1997, p. 132, no. 82 (illustrated).



Exhibited

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. 452.
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé, 5 December 1986 - 22 February 1987, no. 266.
St Petersburg, Hermitage State Museum; Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller, June 1993 - April 1994, no. 247.
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Tsar, 6 - 19 October 1997, no. 82.
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