PROPERTY OF Mr. LYON BOSTON
"PERCY" A LARGE JEWELLED, ENAMEL AND SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CARVED BOWENITE MODEL OF AN ELEPHANT WITH HOWDAH
Details
"PERCY" A LARGE JEWELLED, ENAMEL AND SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CARVED BOWENITE MODEL OF AN ELEPHANT WITH HOWDAH
by Fabergé, workmaster Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1890, with scratched inventory number 4793
Realistically carved forming a replica of the Danish Order of the White Elephant, with gold-mounted diamond eyes, the extremity of the trunk set with two gold-mounted garnet cabochons, carrying a cylindrical howdah formed as a tower, enamelled in red and white triangles with a brick-work design, the upper border with scalework chevrons, banded by two rows of square cut garnetsand secured with a red guilloché enamelled girth hinged beneath and with trefoil attachment on either side of the howdah, enriched with white enamel, in original wood fitted case stamped Fabergé with the Imperial Warrant, St. Petersburg, Moscow - 22.5 cm high and 22.5 cm long
by Fabergé, workmaster Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1890, with scratched inventory number 4793
Realistically carved forming a replica of the Danish Order of the White Elephant, with gold-mounted diamond eyes, the extremity of the trunk set with two gold-mounted garnet cabochons, carrying a cylindrical howdah formed as a tower, enamelled in red and white triangles with a brick-work design, the upper border with scalework chevrons, banded by two rows of square cut garnetsand secured with a red guilloché enamelled girth hinged beneath and with trefoil attachment on either side of the howdah, enriched with white enamel, in original wood fitted case stamped Fabergé with the Imperial Warrant, St. Petersburg, Moscow - 22.5 cm high and 22.5 cm long
Provenance
Christie's London, April 2, 1968, lot 84
Literature
A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé (London, 1988), p. 80, illustrated