Lot 78
78
A SILVER-MOUNTED AVENTURINE QUARTZ MINIATURE VASE

BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER JULIUS RAPPOPORT, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 953

Details
A SILVER-MOUNTED AVENTURINE QUARTZ MINIATURE VASE
by Fabergé, workmaster Julius Rappoport, St. Petersburg, circa 1890, with scratched inventory number 953
The tapering pale orange quartz body supported on partly fluted stepped foot with chased and engraved ribbon-tied laurel band and calyx leaf support, the rim with stylized foliate decoration suspending ribbon-tied laurel swags, marked on calyx and interior of foot
3 1/8in. (8cm.) high
Literature
M.Y. Ghosn, Objets de Vertu par Fabergé, (Paris, 1996), no.51.

Lot Essay

For a similar aventurine quartz vase see A. Somers Cocks and T. Truman, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Renaissance jewels gold boxes and objets de vertu, London, 1984, no.112. For a pencil drawing of this vase see Fabergé Designs, Christie's London, 27 April 1989, lot 410/7.