BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER JULIUS RAPPOPORT, ST PETERSBURG, 1904-1908, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 14251

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A SILVER-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE AND SYCAMORE TABLE
BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER JULIUS RAPPOPORT, ST PETERSBURG, 1904-1908, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 14251
Rectangular with rounded sides, on four fluted legs, with silver pine-cone feet and laurel and husk mount, the stretcher with similar finial and beaded mounts, the upper mounts on the legs cast and chased with ribbon-tied laurel festoon, supporting a frieze with rosettes at the angles and panels with foliate borders, the drawer applied with an oval keyhole within a laurel wreath with ribbon cresting, with similarly decorated silver cartouche to the back, the surface with beaded border and foliate rim mounts, marked throughout with 'Fabergé' in Cyrillic with the Imperial warrant and workmaster's initials
27 ¾ in. (70.2 cm.) high; 31 3⁄8 in. (79.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 November 2003, lot 82.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

Full-size furniture by Fabergé is extremely rare. Fabergé produced only a limited number of tables and showcases, mostly in the workshops of Julius Rappoport, Karl Armfelt, and in Moscow. Furniture was manufactured either by creating pieces using unusual materials, such as nephrite and silver (see a silver-mounted nephrite gueridon table, lot 23), or by enhancing wooden furniture with silver mounts, like the present lot.

A comparable silver-mounted wooden table with a nephrite top in neoclassical style was sold at Christie's, London, 25 November 2019, lot 239. Another comparable mahogany table with silver mounts was sold at Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 1998, lot 306.

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