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MARKED FABERGÉ AND WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890
Details
A RARE JEWELLED SILVER-MOUNTED WOOD PIPE
marked Fabergé and with the workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1890
The carved wooden bowl mounted with a silver beaded rim enhanced with ribbon-tied laurel-leaf swags, the stem with a silver spiralling leaf within two silver laurel-leaf rims, amber mouthpiece, with a silver pin mounted by a cabochon sapphire, marked on the silver mount of the bowl, in original fitted case stamped, 'Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow' with Imperial warrant
9.1in. (23cm.) long
marked Fabergé and with the workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1890
The carved wooden bowl mounted with a silver beaded rim enhanced with ribbon-tied laurel-leaf swags, the stem with a silver spiralling leaf within two silver laurel-leaf rims, amber mouthpiece, with a silver pin mounted by a cabochon sapphire, marked on the silver mount of the bowl, in original fitted case stamped, 'Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow' with Imperial warrant
9.1in. (23cm.) long
Provenance
Sotheby's Geneva, 14 May 1987, lot 427, bought by A La Vieille Russie as agent
Literature
Forbes, C. & Tromeur-Brenner, R. Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 208, ill. p. 209
Exhibited
Edinburgh, The Fine Art Society, Fabergé and the Edwardians, 1987, no. 9. ill.
Aberdeen, The Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, Fabergé and the Edwardians, 1987, no. 9. ill.
New Jersey, The Pingry School, Fabergé Silver from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1990, no cat.
London, Sotheby's, Fabergé Silver from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1991, no. 23, p. 30, ill. p. 31 Copenhagen, Sotheby's, Fabergé Silver from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1991, no cat.
Vienna, The Naturhistorisches Museum, Treasures of the Czars, 1991, p. 69, ill.
Vienna, Osterreichiches Tabakmuseum, Die Lasterhafte Panazee: 500 Jahre Tabakkultur in Europa, 1992, cat. no. III/37, p. 141, ill.
Aberdeen, The Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, Fabergé and the Edwardians, 1987, no. 9. ill.
New Jersey, The Pingry School, Fabergé Silver from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1990, no cat.
London, Sotheby's, Fabergé Silver from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1991, no. 23, p. 30, ill. p. 31 Copenhagen, Sotheby's, Fabergé Silver from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1991, no cat.
Vienna, The Naturhistorisches Museum, Treasures of the Czars, 1991, p. 69, ill.
Vienna, Osterreichiches Tabakmuseum, Die Lasterhafte Panazee: 500 Jahre Tabakkultur in Europa, 1992, cat. no. III/37, p. 141, ill.
Special notice
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