A silver-gilt and two-colour gold-mounted seed-pearl and guilloché enamel clock
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A silver-gilt and two-colour gold-mounted seed-pearl and guilloché enamel clock

MARKED FABERGÉ AND WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST. PETERSBURG, 1896-1908, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 10475

細節
A silver-gilt and two-colour gold-mounted seed-pearl and guilloché enamel clock
marked Fabergé and with the workmaster's mark of Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, 1896-1908, with scratched inventory number 10475
Square balancing on the angle, chased and engraved foliate and rosette rim and applied ribbon-bow and tied laurel swags to the translucent white enamel over sunburst ground, seed-pearl bezel, the white enamel dial with black arabic chapter and pierced gold hands, ivory back and scroll strut, marked on rim, strut and casing, in original fitted wood case, the interior cover stamped in Russian 'Fabergé St. Petersburg Moscow, Odessa' with the Imperial warrant
6 5/8 in. (16.7 cm.) high
來源
Presented on behalf of the Emperor Nicholas II to Alphonse Bertillon on August 4th, 1908.
Thence by direct decent to the present owner.
出版
Suzanne Bertillon, Vie d'Alphonse Bertillon, (Paris, 1941), p. 184.
注意事項
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

Alphonse Bertillon is the inventor of the anthropometry which was implemented by the French police services and later used worldwide at the beginning of the XXth Century.