拍品 95
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A GEM-SET SILVER-MOUNTED SANDSTONE MATCH-HOLDER IN THE FORM OF A FANTASTIC BIRD
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A GEM-SET SILVER-MOUNTED SANDSTONE MATCH-HOLDER IN THE FORM OF A FANTASTIC BIRD

MARKED FABERGÉ WITH IMPERIAL WARRANT AND WITH WORKMASTER'S MARK OF JULIUS RAPPOPORT, MOSCOW, 1896-1908, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 13371

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A GEM-SET SILVER-MOUNTED SANDSTONE MATCH-HOLDER IN THE FORM OF A FANTASTIC BIRD
marked Fabergé with Imperial warrant and with workmaster's mark of Julius Rappoport, Moscow, 1896-1908, with scratched inventory number 13371
Shaped as a fantastic bird with egg-shaped sandstone body and stylized silver beak, legs and tail with silver-mounted cabochon spinel eyes, marked on the tail and beak
6¼in. (16.5cm.) long

拍品專文

Designed as a holder for matches to be struck on the stone. This unusual design appears to find its source from Hieronymus Bosch's 'Garden of Delights'. For another example of such a match-holder see A.K. Snowman, Carl Fabergé, Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia,, London, 1979, p. 47 ill.