A RUSSIAN TWO-COLOR GOLD AND SILVER-MOUNTED GUILLOCHÉ-ENAMELLED DEVOTIONAL FRAME**

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A RUSSIAN TWO-COLOR GOLD AND SILVER-MOUNTED GUILLOCHÉ-ENAMELLED DEVOTIONAL FRAME**
MARKED FABERGE, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890

Rectangular, with green-gold leaf-tip cast border, with red gold rosettes at the angles, surrounding an opalescent oyster-enamelled panel over a sunburst guilloché ground, the whole centering a silver Cherubim holding an oval frame containing a calligraphic rendering of the otche nash', or Lord's Prayer the reverse with a scrolling strut and ivory back, sold in its original Fabergé hollywood box, the white silk and velvet-lined interior stamped in cyrillic Faberge, St. Peterburg', Moskva, and with a letter of authentification signed by Grand Duke André of Russia, and dated May 27, 1952
3 7/8in. x 3¼in. (9.8cm. x 8.3cm.)

Provenance

Possibly H.I.H. Tsar Nicholas II
Mr. Rachevsky, Paris

Lot Essay

This piece is interesting in that it appears to be completely unique amongst the oeuvres of the Fabergé workshops. No other recorded "memento mori" by Fabergé are in contemporary sources, nor have they been included in any of the recent exhibitions. The M. Rachevsky addressed by Prince Dmitry of Russia in the accompanying letter is possibly a relation of Mme. Zinaïda Rachevskaya, who became the morganatic wife of Grand Duke Boris of Russia in 1919.