Details
A GOLD-MOUNTED, ENAMEL AND NEPHRITE COMPACT
BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917
Of shaped oval form, the base and hinged cover set with Chinese nephrite cricket cage panels, carved with an openwork design and a stylised tiger to one side and an elephant to the other, within gold mounts champlevé enamelled with white bands and chased with gold leaves, the hinged cover opening to reveal a mirror and a compartment for powder and puff, marked inside compartment cover with 'Fabergé' and workmaster's initials
2 3⁄4 in. (7.2 cm.) long
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 12 November 1985, lot 374.
Literature
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé, Kunsthalle of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, 1986, p. 157, no. 179 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé - A Private Collection, Helsinki, 1997, p. 16, no. 12 (illustrated).
U. Tillander-Godenhielm et al., Golden Years of Fabergé: Drawings and Objects from the Wigström Workshop, Paris, 2000, p. 110 (illustrated).
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 202, no. 462 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé - Cartier, Rivalen am Zarenhof, Munich, 2003, p. 189, no. 139 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé, Joaillier des Romanov, Brussels, 2006, p. 191, no. 131 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Carl Fabergé. A Private Collection, London, 2012, pp. 106-107, no. 88 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Munich, Kunsthalle of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé, 5 December 1986 - 8 March 1987, no. 179.
New York, Habsburg, Feldman, The Josiane Woolf Fabergé Collection, 3 - 9 November 1988, no. 11.
Zurich, Museum Bellerive, Carl Fabergé. Kostbarkeiten Russischer Goldschmiedekunst der Jahrkunderwende, 31 May - September 1989, no. 179.
Lahti, Lahti Art Museum, Fabergé - A Private Collection, 14 March - 4 May 1997, no. 12.
London, Spencer House, Fabergé from Private Collections - An exhibition on behalf of Music in Country Churches, 8 December 1998, no. 27.
New York, A La Vieille Russie; New Orleans; Golden Years of Fabergé. Drawings of the Wigström Workshop, 12 April - 19 May 2000.
Wilmington, Riverfront Arts Centre, Fabergé, Imperial Craftsman and his World, 14 August 2000 - 28 February 2001, no. 462.
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé/Cartier, Rivals at the Tsar’s Court, 28 November 2003 - 12 April 2004, no. 139.
Brussels, Espace Culturel ING, Fabergé, Joaillier des Romanov, 19 October - 5 February 2006, no. 131.
London, Wartski, Carl Fabergé. A Private Collection, 15 - 25 May 2012, no. 88.
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