A SILVER TABLE LIGHTER FORMED AS AN ELEPHANT

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A SILVER TABLE LIGHTER FORMED AS AN ELEPHANT
marked Fabergé with the Imperial Warrant, with the initials of the First Artel, Moscow, 1908-1917, with scratched inventory number 20834
Realistically modelled with head slightly to one side and trunk curled up beside the neck, hinged at the neck to reveal the taper and fuel compartments, the trunk being the outlet for the taper - 12.5 cm long (599 g)

Lot Essay

It has long been considered that the silver and hardstone workshops of Fabergé may have used the same wax models to create animal figures and this piece would seem to be one of the proofs. An identical model in nephrite is in The Royal Collection at Sandringham, see A.K. Snowman, The Art of Carl Fabergé (London, 1964) illus.247.

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