Details
A JEWELLED GOLD, SILVER-GILT AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL DESK CLOCK
marked Fabergé and with the workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1896, with scratched inventory number 58626
Square, with gold reeded borders, enamelled overall in translucent royal blue enamel over guilloché ground, the opaque white enamel dial with black Arabic chapter and pierced gold hands within seed-pearl bezel, each corner applied with a fleur-de-lys set in rose-cut diamonds, raised on four silver-gilt ball feet, fully marked
3¼in. (8.2cm.) wide
Provenance
Purchased by the Empress Maria Feodorovna for 400 rubles on January 27th 1898 Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 29 & 30 November 1978, lot 414
Floribunda New York Vartanian & Sons, New York as agent
Literature
von Solodkoff, A. Fabergé Clocks, London, 1986, p. 33, ill. Kelly, M. "Fabergé Table Clocks", Chronos, New York, Fall/Winter, 1995, p. 62
Forbes, C. & Tromeur-Brenner, R. Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 130, ill. p. 131
Exhibited
Lugano, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Fabergé Fantasies from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1987, no. 27, p. 55, ill.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Fabergé, Orfèvre à la Cour des Tsars, 1987, no. 27, p. 51, ill.
London, Sotheby's, Fabergé Silver from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1991, no. 9, p. 20, ill.
Copenhagen, Sotheby's, Fabergé Silver from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1991, p. 70, ill.
Houston, Houston Museum of Natural Science, The World of Fabergé: Russian Gems and Jewels, 1994, no. cat.
Simi Valley, The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Regal Spendor: Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, 1998/99, case 6
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