MARKED FABERGÉ AND WITH WORKMASTER'S MARK OF ERIK KOLLIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1880, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 12006

Details

A jewelled silver-gilt mounted agate bowl
marked Fabergé and with workmaster's mark of Erik Kollin, St. Petersburg, circa 1880, scratched inventory number 12006
Circular, on octagonal domed foot with twisted wirework scroll decoration and set with four cabochon garnets, the short cylindrical stem supporting the twisted wirework mount of interlaced arcs with red stones and set flowerheads at the intersections, the polished agate bowl with flared rim, marked under base
6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

For a similar silver-gilt and agate bowl by Erik Kollin, see Christie's London, 30 November 2005, lot 184. A gold-mounted version was offered in the same sale as lot 99, for which a design appears in U. Tillander-Godenhielm, et al, Gold Years of Fabergé, Drawings and Objects from the Wigström Workshop, Graulhet, 2000, p. 265. The Scythian influences in works by Fabergé are also discussed in an article by A. M. Ilich, ob.cit. pp. 110, 114.

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