BY FABERGÉ, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER PARTIALLY VISIBLE 1098(?)

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AN ENAMEL, GOLD AND HARDSTONE STUDY OF A RASPBERRY
BY FABERGÉ, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER PARTIALLY VISIBLE 1098(?)
In a tapering cylindrical rock crystal vase, a finely textured gold stem with nephrite leaves, terminating in three rhodonite and two nephrite berries, with green enamel calyxes, apparently unmarked; in a fitted Hammer Galleries wooden case
4 ¾ in. (12 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired by Matilda Geddings Gray (1885-1971) from Hammer Galleries, New York, in the late 1940s / early 1950s.
By descent to Matilda Gray Stream (1924-2023) and descendants.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Loan Exhibition of the Art of Peter Carl Fabergé, Imperial Court Jeweler, 1846 – 1920 at the Hammer Galleries, 1951, p. 35, no. 199 (illustrated).

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. 199.

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Lot Essay

The present lot is one of only a small number of Fabergé raspberry studies known to exist. A closely comparable study was acquired by Queen Alexandra and is part of the Royal Collection Trust (see H.C. Bainbridge, Peter Carl Fabergé, London, 1949, pl. 83).

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