A JEWELLED, ENAMEL AND GOLD MOUNTED CIGARETTE CASE

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A JEWELLED, ENAMEL AND GOLD MOUNTED CIGARETTE CASE
by Fabergé, workmaster Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, 1903-1908

Of rectangular form and oval section, stripped overall with alternating opaque pale lilac and slender with stripes, banded with translucent green laurel leaves set with rose cut diamond berries on a sablé ground, rose cut diamond thumbpiece - 8.2 cm high

來源

From the collection of Mrs George Keppel

拍品專文

Alice Keppel, eight daughter of Admiral Sir William Edmonstone (1810-1888) was born in 1869, at the age of twenty two she married the Hon. George Keppel. In 1898, she developped a unique and long-lasting understanding with Edward VII as a close friend. The king and Mrs Keppel both used cigarette cases by Fabergé; Alice Keppel was a great admirer of Karl Fabergé's work and was instrumental in the creation of Royal collection of Fabergé hardstone animals at Sandringham.