MARKED FABERGÉ, ST. PETERSBURG, 1908-1917, WITH WORKMASTER'S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 18568

細節

A HARDSTONE-MOUNTED SILVER-GILT GUM-POT
MARKED FABERGÉ, ST. PETERSBURG, 1908-1917, WITH WORKMASTER'S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 18568
Modelled as 'The Eagle Vase', the tapering pale green hardstone body on a base modelled as two eagle's claws, each holding a fish, the handles modelled as wings and the detachable stopper modelled as an eagle's neck and head, marked underneath, on wings, on rim and on stopper
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high

來源

Christie's Geneva, 11 May 1982, lot 235.
The di Portanova Collection, Christie's New York, 25 October 2000, lot 529.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

拍品專文

The Eagle Vase is an important French silver-gilt mounted porphyry flagon dating from circa 1150. It was originally ordered by Abbot Sugar of the Abbey and Basilica of St. Denis, north of Paris, and now in the collection of the Louvre. It is made from a late Classical porphyry vase which had 'lain idle in a chest for many years' before Abbot Sugar ordered that it be mounted in silver-gilt so that it could be used in the Abbey.

A Fabergé design interpreting the Eagle Vase as the Imperial crest is held in the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg (Inv.ERO III - 1592).