A Jewelled blue Guilloché Enamel Miniature Photograph Frame

BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER KARL GUSTAV HALMAR ARMFELT, ST. PETERSBURG. 1899-1908, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 14239; AND MARKED FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER JOHANN VIKTOR AARNE, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1880, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 57819

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A Jewelled blue Guilloché Enamel Miniature Photograph Frame
by Fabergé, workmaster Karl Gustav Halmar Armfelt, St. Petersburg. 1899-1908, with scratched inventory number 14239; and marked Fabergé, workmaster Johann Viktor Aarne, St. Petersburg, circa 1880, with scratched inventory number 57819
The former, of shaped rectangular form with rectanular aperture in a seed-pearl border, with pale blue enamel over a waved guilloché ground, surmounted by a ribbon cresting with pendant vari-colour yellow metal festoons set with three rose-diamonds, marked on lower border and strut; and a circular frame, the aperture with beaded border and ribbon cresting, with green enamel over a sunburst guilloché ground, within an acanthus leaf mount, circular strut on scroll feet, marked on the rim and strut
2½ in. (6.5 cm.) high; and 3¾ in. (9.4 cm.) diam. (2)

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