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MARKED FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF JULIUS RAPPOPORT, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1904, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 6419
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A PRESENTATION SILVER-GILT AND BOWENITE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
MARKED FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF JULIUS RAPPOPORT, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1904, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 6419
On two silver sphinx-form feet and two lion paw feet, the bowenite body centring a white enamel dial with black Arabic chapter and hands, applied with four finely cast and chased ram-heads at upper corners, with ribbon-tied floral swags to the front and sides, engraved in Bulgarian ‘[to] His Royal Highness Prince Boris of Tarnovo / Council of Ministers / January 1908’, the detachable cover surmounted by a flaming urn finial, the reverse with rectangular hinged door opening to reveal the clock movement, marked throughout
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high
MARKED FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF JULIUS RAPPOPORT, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1904, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 6419
On two silver sphinx-form feet and two lion paw feet, the bowenite body centring a white enamel dial with black Arabic chapter and hands, applied with four finely cast and chased ram-heads at upper corners, with ribbon-tied floral swags to the front and sides, engraved in Bulgarian ‘[to] His Royal Highness Prince Boris of Tarnovo / Council of Ministers / January 1908’, the detachable cover surmounted by a flaming urn finial, the reverse with rectangular hinged door opening to reveal the clock movement, marked throughout
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Presented to Prince Boris of Tarnovo (1894-1943) by the Council of Ministers in January 1908.
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