Lot 67
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A very rare gold-mounted guilloché enamel brooch commemorating the bicentenary of the 'Pochetnyi' Regiments
A very rare gold-mounted guilloché enamel brooch commemorating the bicentenary of the 'Pochetnyi' Regiments

BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1883

Details
A very rare gold-mounted guilloché enamel brooch commemorating the bicentenary of the 'Pochetnyi' Regiments
by Fabergé, workmaster Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1883
Shaped as a collar of the Preobrazhenskii Regiment with its gold chased embroideries over red guilloché ground, set in the centre with the interlaced cyphers of Peter the Great and Alexander III, surmounted by the Imperial crown and a ribbon below with the Russian inscription '1683 Moscow 1883', fully marked
2.3/8in. (6cm.) long
Provenance
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna, thence by descent

Lot Essay

Elizabeth Mavrikievna (1865-1927) was born Princess of Saxe-Altenburg and married in 1884 Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, inspector of military schools and a talented poet. They lived mainly in the Marble Palace in St. Petersburg and at Pavlovsk outside the city.

In 1683 Peter the Great created the Preobrazhanskii and Semenovskii Regiments as well as a company of bombardiers, which included his companions from the villages of Preobrazhenskoe and Semenovskoe. Called 'Pochetnyi' they became the first regiments of the Russian Imperial Guard.