A MINIATURE JEWELLED, NEPHRITE AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL KOVSH
A MINIATURE JEWELLED, NEPHRITE AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL KOVSH

BY FABERGÉ, APPARENTLY UNMARKED

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A MINIATURE JEWELLED, NEPHRITE AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL KOVSH
by Fabergé, apparently unmarked
Of traditional shape with oval bowl, the gold-mounted handle of translucent red enamel over guilloché ground, within rose-cut diamond borders with a gold-mounted finial, apparently unmarked
2½in. (6.5cm.) long
Provenance
A La Vieille Russie, New York, July 1976
Landsell K. Christie, Long Island
A La Vieille Russie, New York
Literature
McNab, D. "Fabergé's Objects of Fantasy" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. 23 (n.s.), March 1965, p. 234, ill.
Waterfield, H. & Forbes, C. Fabergé Imperial Eggs and Other Fantasies, New York, 1978, no. 131, pp. 101, 132, ill. p. 101
Brown, E. "When Easter Time Was Fabergé Time", New York Times Magazines, Sunday, April 15, 1979, p. 65, ill.
von Solodkoff, A. Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, New York, 1984, p. 165, ill. Kelly, M. Highlites from the Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, 1985, p. 23, ill.
Forbes, C. "Forbes' Fabulous Fabergé", USA Today, Vol. 117, July 1988, p. 40, ill.
Forbes, C. & Tromeur-Brenner, R. Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 162, ill. p. 163
Exhibited
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1962/65, no. L. 62.8.160
Fort Worth, The Kimbell Art Museum, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1983, no. 9
Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1983/84, no. 2
Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1984, no. 11
New York/San Francisco/Richmond/New Orleans/Cleveland, Metropolitan Museum of Art, H.M. De Young Memorial Museum, Museum of Fine Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Fabergé in America, 1996/97, no. 192, cat. p. 204, ill.

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