Lot 522
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A silver-gilt and guilloché enamel mounted garniture comprising a table clock and two columns
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A silver-gilt and guilloché enamel mounted garniture comprising a table clock and two columns

MARKED FABERGÉ WITH IMPERIAL WARRANT AND WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF JULIUS RAPPOPORT, ST. PETERSBURG, 1896-1908

Details
A silver-gilt and guilloché enamel mounted garniture comprising a table clock and two columns
marked Fabergé with Imperial warrant and with the workmaster's mark of Julius Rappoport, St. Petersburg, 1896-1908
On a square bowenite base on four scaly dolphins, the body formed as a plinth with bowenite columns at the angles above a silver-gilt anthemion and husk border supporting an entablature with rosettes and enthemion, the sides with red guilloché enamel plaques with sunburst design, applied with silver-gilt anthemions and ribbon-tied laurel wreath, the front with a similar red guilloché enamel plaque with a sunburst design emanating from an oyster guilloché enamel moire dial with red arabic chapters, further applied below with an enamelled double-headed Imperial eagle, the top surmounted by a silver-gilt Imperial double-headed eagle on a stylized carved bowenite base, the two columns with similar design, surmounted by an Imperial Russian double-headed eagle and the Royal Hungarian eagle on a silver-gilt capital
each column 17¾ in. (45.3 cm.) high; table clock 16 1/3 in. (42 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

This large and impressive garniture which includes the Russian double- headed Imperial eagle and the Hungarian eagle at the top of each column may be linked to the involvement of the Russian army in Transylvania during the reign of Nicholas I in 1849. In addition, this specific Imperial double-headed eagle with extended wings was used only during Nicholas I's reign (1825-1855), which may confirm the above.
It is possible that this garniture was presented to one of the participants who saw action during this Russian intervention.

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