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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A jewelled four-color gold and silver-gilt mounted guilloché enamel and seed-pearl Desk-Clock
MARKED FABERGÉ AND WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 51996
Details
A jewelled four-color gold and silver-gilt mounted guilloché enamel and seed-pearl Desk-Clock
marked Fabergé and with the workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1890, with scratched inventory number 51996
Semi-circular, with extended borders at the top and angles, enamelled in a wide outer band of translucent yellow over a sunburst ground, emanating from the central white enamel dial with black enamel chapter and seed-pearl bezel, and overlapping the pierced trelliswork lower border, the trelliswork an outer chased laurel rim with rose-cut diamond-set flowerheads, the latter suspending vari-color flower garlands and festoons, surmounted by a laurel bordered ribbon-tied bow and quiver, scroll strut, marked on lower rim, back and strut
6¾in. (17.2cm.) wide
marked Fabergé and with the workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1890, with scratched inventory number 51996
Semi-circular, with extended borders at the top and angles, enamelled in a wide outer band of translucent yellow over a sunburst ground, emanating from the central white enamel dial with black enamel chapter and seed-pearl bezel, and overlapping the pierced trelliswork lower border, the trelliswork an outer chased laurel rim with rose-cut diamond-set flowerheads, the latter suspending vari-color flower garlands and festoons, surmounted by a laurel bordered ribbon-tied bow and quiver, scroll strut, marked on lower rim, back and strut
6¾in. (17.2cm.) wide
Exhibited
Christie's London, The Glory of the Goldsmith, Magnificent gold and silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, (1989) p.270.