BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER ALEXANDER PETROV, ST. PETERSBURG, 1899-1904, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 6151

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A JEWELED, ENAMEL GOLD AND SILVER STUDY OF BEGONIA
BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER ALEXANDER PETROV, ST. PETERSBURG, 1899-1904, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 6151
Realistically modeled as a begonia flower, enameled in opaque pink, centering a gold-mounted diamond, with four painted green enamel leaves, all set in a silver pot enameled in opaque brown to resemble a clay pot, with black textured enamel soil, marked under base with ‘Fabergé’ in Cyrillic and workmaster’s initials; in a fitted Hammer Galleries wooden case
4 3⁄8 in. (11 cm.) high

Provenance

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

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Lot Essay

Flower studies by Alexander Petrov rarely appear on the market. Petrov headed an enameling workshop at Fabergé from 1895 until his death in 1904. After his passing, the workshop was taken over by his sons, Dimitri and Nikolai. Nikolai Petrov rose to become chief enameler at Fabergé and was widely regarded as one of the finest enamelers in Russia at the time.

For a comparable flower study of a morning glory in an enameled pot also by Alexander Petrov, previously in the collection of Arthur E. Bradshaw, see exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 1983, pp. 126, 128, no. 469.

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