Lot Essay
A very similar clock is part of a desk garniture in the collection of Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza and illustrated in Munich, Kuntshalle der Hypokulturstiftung, Fabergé, p. 170
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MARKED FABERGÉ AND WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF KARL ARMFELDT, ST. PETERSBURG, 1908-1917
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A SILVER-GILT NEPHRITE CLOCK
marked Fabergé and with the workmaster's mark of Karl Armfeldt, St. Petersburg, 1908-1917
On a tapering nephrite circular base with a silver-gilt leaf border, surmounted by a cylindrical column within two silver-gilt ribbon-tied laurel-leaf rims, the white enamel dial with black arabic chapter and pierced gold hands within a circular nephrite frame enclosing a silver-gilt dot-and-dash rim and a ribbon-tied laurel bezel, marked on the base
6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) high
marked Fabergé and with the workmaster's mark of Karl Armfeldt, St. Petersburg, 1908-1917
On a tapering nephrite circular base with a silver-gilt leaf border, surmounted by a cylindrical column within two silver-gilt ribbon-tied laurel-leaf rims, the white enamel dial with black arabic chapter and pierced gold hands within a circular nephrite frame enclosing a silver-gilt dot-and-dash rim and a ribbon-tied laurel bezel, marked on the base
6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) high
Provenance
A La Vieille Russie, New York, 15 october 1980
Literature
von Solodkoff, A. Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, New York, 1984, p. 177, ill. pp. 6, 177
Jacobson, S. Only the Best, New York, 1985, p. 50, ill.
Kelly, M. "Fabergé Table Clocks", Chronos, New York, 1995, p. 66, ill.
Forbes, C. & Tromeur-Brenner, R. Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 190, ill. p. 191
Jacobson, S. Only the Best, New York, 1985, p. 50, ill.
Kelly, M. "Fabergé Table Clocks", Chronos, New York, 1995, p. 66, ill.
Forbes, C. & Tromeur-Brenner, R. Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 190, ill. p. 191
Exhibited
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, 1996/97, no. 287, ill. p. 286
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