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A PAIR OF JEWELLED TWO-COLOR GOLD AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL TOILET BOTTLES
marked with the Cyrillic initials KF for Carl Fabergé, Moscow, 1896-1908, with scratched inventory number 23425
The tapering cut-glass bodies, each engraved with spiraling panels of scrolling floral motifs below a plain gold mount, the domed covers of pale blue guilloché enamel applied with gold laurel branches, the rim applied with a chased gold laurel branch set at intervals with rose-cut diamonds, within two gold beeded rims, each set at the top with an amethyst cabochon within a rose-cut diamond rim, marked on cover and rim
5 1/8in. (13cm.) high
Provenance
Christie's Geneva, 20 November 1982, lot 292, bought by A La Vieille Russie as agent
Literature
von Solodkoff, A. Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, New York, 1984, p. 178, ill.
Kelly, M. Highlites from The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, 1985, p. 16, ill. pp. 12, 17
Forbes, C. "Imperial Treasure: A Modern Czar's Son Tells of the Great Easter Egg Hunt", Art & Antiques, April 1986, ill. pp. 52-53
Forbes, C. "Forbes' Fabulous Fabergé", USA Today, Vol. 117, July 1988, p. 43, ill.
Hill, G. Fabergé and the Russian Master Goldsmiths, New York, 1989, p. 292, ill. pl. no. 259
Forbes, C. & Tromeur-Brenner, R. Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 157, ill. p. 156
Exhibited
Virginia/Minneapolis/Chicago, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Fabergé, Selections from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1983, no. 69, p. 16
Fort Worth, The Kimbell Art Museum, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1983, no. 114
Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1984, no. 111
New York/San Francisco/Richmond/New Orleans/Cleveland, Metropolitan Museum of Art, H.M. De Young Memorial Museum, Museum of Fine Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Fabergé in America, no. 262, p. 255, ill.
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