A GOLD-MOUNTED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL NEPHRITE CANE-HANDLE

MARKED FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST. PETERSBURG, 1908-1917

Details

A GOLD-MOUNTED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL NEPHRITE CANE-HANDLE
marked Fabergé, workmaster Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, 1908-1917
Hook-shaped, the tapering handle with mount of translucent yellow and blue enamel stripes within chased and engraved laurel borders, marked on laurel borders
4in. (10.2cm.) wide

Literature

M.Y. Ghosn, Objets de Vertu par Fabergé, (Paris, 1996), no.128.

Lot Essay

Blue and yellow were the racing colours of the Rothschilds. H.C. Bainbridge in his memoirs, Twice Seven (London, 1934), relates that James de Rothschild, on his marriage, ordered various objects from Fabergé including a nephrite cane handle, but this was considered too extravagant for Ascot and Longchamp.