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A TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL MAGNIFYING GLASS
MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 3848
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A TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL MAGNIFYING GLASS
MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 3848
The circular lens with reeded bezel, tapering cylindrical handle and glass mount enamelled in translucent light grey over wavy guilloché ground, with a circular terminal, decorated with green gold acanthus mount, marked on finial; in the original Fabergé silk and velvet-lined wood case stamped ‘Fabergé St Petersburg Moscow Odessa’
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) wide
MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 3848
The circular lens with reeded bezel, tapering cylindrical handle and glass mount enamelled in translucent light grey over wavy guilloché ground, with a circular terminal, decorated with green gold acanthus mount, marked on finial; in the original Fabergé silk and velvet-lined wood case stamped ‘Fabergé St Petersburg Moscow Odessa’
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) wide
Provenance
The di Portanova Collection of Fabergé; Christie's, New York, 25 October 2000, lot 498.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, The Last Flowering of Court Art, London, 2010, pp. 104-105, no. 37 (illustrated).
Exhibited
London, Wartski, The Last Flowering of Court Art, 23 November-4 December 2010, no. 37.
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