MARKED FABERGÉ AND WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF VICTOR AARNE, ST. PETERSBURG, 1896-1908
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A silver-mounted guilloché enamel Frame
marked Fabergé and with the workmaster's mark of Victor Aarne, St. Petersburg, 1896-1908
Rectangular, enamelled in translucent red over a moiré ground, applied with three bows in the upper section suspending foliate swags and festoons and a ring fastened to the ribbon-tied reeded bezel, with a beribboned laurel wreath and thyrsus below, within a lotus leaf border, scroll strut, wooden back, marked under rim and on strut
8 3/8in. (21.4cm.) high
Lot Essay
The aperture encloses a photograph taken by Princess Henry of Prussia showing her sister Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna.
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