拍品专文
The present lot is sold with a letter dated 8th February 1954 from G. Nobel, brother of Emmanuel Nobel authentificating the provenance of the brooch.
According to H. C. Bainbridge, Dr. Emmanuel Nobel "was a man of very original ideas..." For Dr. Nobel a dinner party was no dinner at all unless the ladies preset were suitably rewarded. On one of these occasions, wishing to recall a Russian winter, he conceived the idea of giving all the ladies present an icicle. Fabergé carried this out in pendants and brooches in rock crystal with a mat surface adorned with small diamonds in front designs (H.C. Bainbridge, Peter Carl Fabergé, London, 1949, p. 58).
Since H.C. Bainbridge memoirs, it has to be discovered that these series have been designed by Alma Theresea Phil (1888-1976), daughter of the Fabergé workmaster Oskar Phil and leading designer in the Fabergé workshop of August Holmström (A. Kenneth Snowman, "Apollo, Two books of Revelation", September 1987, p. 155)
According to H. C. Bainbridge, Dr. Emmanuel Nobel "was a man of very original ideas..." For Dr. Nobel a dinner party was no dinner at all unless the ladies preset were suitably rewarded. On one of these occasions, wishing to recall a Russian winter, he conceived the idea of giving all the ladies present an icicle. Fabergé carried this out in pendants and brooches in rock crystal with a mat surface adorned with small diamonds in front designs (H.C. Bainbridge, Peter Carl Fabergé, London, 1949, p. 58).
Since H.C. Bainbridge memoirs, it has to be discovered that these series have been designed by Alma Theresea Phil (1888-1976), daughter of the Fabergé workmaster Oskar Phil and leading designer in the Fabergé workshop of August Holmström (A. Kenneth Snowman, "Apollo, Two books of Revelation", September 1987, p. 155)