Lot 40
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A silver-gilt mounted hardstone Cup

MARKED FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER JOHANN VIKTOR AARNE, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 58833

Details
A silver-gilt mounted hardstone Cup
marked Fabergé, workmaster Johann Viktor Aarne, St. Petersburg, circa 1890, with scratched inventory number 58833
Of goblet form, the polished hardstone bowl on flared stem and spreading foot with gadrooned border and collar, two tapering handles with gadrooned finials issuing from the collar, marked on base
3½in. (9cm.) high
Provenance
Lord Ivar Mountbatten

Lot Essay

Lord Ivar Mountbatten is descended from the Russian Imperial Family through his grandmother, Nadezhda Mikhailovna, Countess Torby, 2nd Marchioness of Milford Haven. Her father, Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich, the grandson of Nicholas I through his youngest son, was married morganatically to Sophie, Countess Merenberg, the daughter of Nicholas, Prince of Nassau, and his morganatic wife Natalia Alexandrovna, the daughter of the poet Alexander Pushkin.