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Russian Works of Art
Lot 436
436
A GOLD-MOUNTED CARVED BOWENITE GUM-POT
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A GOLD-MOUNTED CARVED BOWENITE GUM-POT
by Fabergé, workmaster Michel Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1890
Realistically carved as a pear, the engraved gold stalk with brush at the other end, resting in a plain gold mount --
8 cm high
Lot Essay
For a similar gum-pot shaped as a pear see Christie's Geneva, 17 May 1994, lot 264
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