A JEWELLED, NEPHRITE AND TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED COMPASS

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A JEWELLED, NEPHRITE AND TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED COMPASS
marked Fabergé, workmaster Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, 1899-1908, with scratched inventory number 4365

Cylindrical on three gold paw feet below a two-colour gold laurel leaf rim, the nephrite body enclosing a pivoting gold mounted compass flanked by two-colour gold mounted cabochon garnets shaped as bud finials - 3.2 cm high

Lot Essay

Exhibited:
Helsinki, Konstindustrimuseum, Carl Fabergé and his contemporaries (1980), p. 24, no. 19 (illustrated).
Leningrad, Elagin Palace The Great Fabergé (1989), p. 81, no. 47 (illustrated).

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