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

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For a similar gum-pot shaped as a pear see Christie's Geneva, 17 May 1994, lot 264

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