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MARKED FABERGÉ AND WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1896
Details
A JEWELLED GOLD AND ROCK-CRYSTAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY MOMENTO
marked Fabergé and with the workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1896
The heart-shaped rock-crystal engraved with the letters A and M surrounded by two ribbon-tied laurel wreaths and with the number twenty-five in Roman characters within a gold frame designed with white opaque enamel, mounted onto a circular gold stand with alternating white opaque enamel and gold spiralling bands terminating at a rose-cut diamond and ruby set collar, marked
3in. (7.5cm.) high
marked Fabergé and with the workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1896
The heart-shaped rock-crystal engraved with the letters A and M surrounded by two ribbon-tied laurel wreaths and with the number twenty-five in Roman characters within a gold frame designed with white opaque enamel, mounted onto a circular gold stand with alternating white opaque enamel and gold spiralling bands terminating at a rose-cut diamond and ruby set collar, marked
3in. (7.5cm.) high
Provenance
Christie's Geneva, A Highly Important Collection of Works of Art by Carl Fabergé from the Collection of the Late Sir Charles Clore, 13 November 1985, lot 51, bought by A La Vieille Russie as agent
Literature
Forbes, C. & Tromeur-Brenner, R. Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 162, ill. p. 163
Exhibited
Lugano, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Fabergé Fantasies from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1987, no. 67, ill. p. 78 Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Fabergé, Orfèvre à la Cour des Tsars, 1987, no. 67, ill. p. 74
Simi Valley, The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Regal Splendor: Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, 1998/99, case 8
Simi Valley, The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Regal Splendor: Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, 1998/99, case 8
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