Lot Essay
For a similar clock see, Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Tsar, 1997, no. 144, p. 172, ill.
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MARKED FABERGÉ WITH IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1896-1908, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 24358
Details
A JEWELLED TWO-COLOR GOLD, SILVER-GILT AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL TABLE CLOCK
marked Fabergé with Imperial warrant, Moscow, 1896-1908, with scratched inventory number 24358
Shaped as a gueridon, the central white enamel dial with black arabic chapter in seed-pearl bezel, surrounded by suspended gold ribbon-tied laurel wreathes within translucent salmon pink enamel over guilloché ground within silver-gilt laurel leaf rim, on four silver corinthian style columns on four silver and silver-gilt rosettes set on four silver paw feet, joined by a circular silver-gilt platform decorated with silver floral scrolls and centered by a silver cone finial, the sides with silver-gilt crossed arrows and silver ribbon-tied laurel wreaths, fully marked, in original fitted glass and tooled leather travelling case
3½in. (8.7cm.) high
marked Fabergé with Imperial warrant, Moscow, 1896-1908, with scratched inventory number 24358
Shaped as a gueridon, the central white enamel dial with black arabic chapter in seed-pearl bezel, surrounded by suspended gold ribbon-tied laurel wreathes within translucent salmon pink enamel over guilloché ground within silver-gilt laurel leaf rim, on four silver corinthian style columns on four silver and silver-gilt rosettes set on four silver paw feet, joined by a circular silver-gilt platform decorated with silver floral scrolls and centered by a silver cone finial, the sides with silver-gilt crossed arrows and silver ribbon-tied laurel wreaths, fully marked, in original fitted glass and tooled leather travelling case
3½in. (8.7cm.) high
Provenance
Sotheby's Parke Bernet, 19 November 1976, lot 253 Phillips Son & Neale, New York, 6 June 1979, lot 373
Literature
von Solodkoff, A. Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, New York, 1984, p. 164, ill. von Solodkoff, A. Fabergé Clocks, London 1986, p. 33, ill. Kelly, M. Fabergé Table Clocks, New York, 1995, pp. 63, 64, ill. p. 63 Forbes, C. & Tromeur-Brenner, R. Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 105, ill. p. 104 von Habsburg, G. Fabergé, Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, no. 270, p. 144, ill.
Exhibited
New York, A La Vieille Russie, Peter Carl Fabergé, Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court, 1949, no. 113, p. 12
Virginia/Minneapolis/Chicago, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Fabergé, Selections from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1983, no. 47, p. 15
Fort Worth, The Kimbell Art Museum, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1983, no. 4
Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1984, no. 4
Munich, Kuntshalle der Hypokulturstiftung, Fabergé, Juwelier der Zaren, 1986/87, no. 434, p. 228, ill.
Lugano, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Fabergé Fantasies from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1987, no. 30, p. 56, ill.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Fabergé, Orfèvre à la Cour des Tsars, 1987, no. 30, p. 52, ill.
Virginia/Minneapolis/Chicago, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Fabergé, Selections from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1983, no. 47, p. 15
Fort Worth, The Kimbell Art Museum, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1983, no. 4
Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1984, no. 4
Munich, Kuntshalle der Hypokulturstiftung, Fabergé, Juwelier der Zaren, 1986/87, no. 434, p. 228, ill.
Lugano, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Fabergé Fantasies from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1987, no. 30, p. 56, ill.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Fabergé, Orfèvre à la Cour des Tsars, 1987, no. 30, p. 52, ill.
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