BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 8072

Details

A JEWELED AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GOLD CIGARETTE CASE
BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 8072
Étui-form, the gold body enameled with panels of translucent yellow over a moiré guilloché ground, within opaque white enamel rims, the gold borders further enameled with white and red dots and red ribbon-tied green laurels, with a diamond push-piece, engraved with ‘Fabergé’ in Cyrillic on the rim, and marked inside cover with workmaster’s initials
3 5⁄8 in. (9.2 cm.) high

Provenance

With Hammer Galleries, New York, circa 1940s / 1950s.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Loan Exhibition of the Art of Peter Carl Fabergé, Imperial Court Jeweler, 1846 – 1920 at the Hammer Galleries, 1951, p. 33, no. 177 (listed).

Exhibited

Hammer Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition of the Art of Peter Carl Fabergé, Imperial Court Jeweler, 1846 – 1920 at the Hammer Galleries, 28 March – 28 April 1951, no. 177.

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Lot Essay

A design for a comparable cigarette case is featured in the Wigström’s design book held in the National Library of Finland (see U. Tillander-Godenhielm, Fabergé: The Twilight Years, Drawings and Objects from the Second Henrik Wigström Album, 2023, pp. 101-102, pl. 37). An almost identical cigarette case in steel grey enamel was sold at Christie's, Geneva, 12 May 1981, lot 118.

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