Lot Essay
A similar pair of scent-bottles with pink guilloché enamel covers were sold from the Collection of Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon at Christie's London, 13 June 2006, lot 130.
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MARKED FABERGÉ WITH IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 15278, THE BORDERS OF THE COVER ENGRAVED 'TIFFANY & CO., LONDON'
Details
A pair of jewelled and guilloché enamelled three-colour gold-mounted glass scent-bottles
Marked Fabergé with Imperial warrant, Moscow, circa 1890, with scratched inventory number 15278, the borders of the cover engraved 'Tiffany & Co., London'
Of conical form, each glass bottle with spirally fluted scrolling foliage, the gilt mount with ribbon-tied reeded border, the lift-off cover with applied trelliswork over oyster guilloché enamel beneath rose-diamond set ribbon-tied festoons enclosing a purple sunburst enamel trefoil, surmounted by a cabochon ruby finial, with glass stopper, marked on mounts and inside covers
5 1/8 in. (12.8 cm.) high (2)
Marked Fabergé with Imperial warrant, Moscow, circa 1890, with scratched inventory number 15278, the borders of the cover engraved 'Tiffany & Co., London'
Of conical form, each glass bottle with spirally fluted scrolling foliage, the gilt mount with ribbon-tied reeded border, the lift-off cover with applied trelliswork over oyster guilloché enamel beneath rose-diamond set ribbon-tied festoons enclosing a purple sunburst enamel trefoil, surmounted by a cabochon ruby finial, with glass stopper, marked on mounts and inside covers
5 1/8 in. (12.8 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Christie's New York, the Colletion of the Late Elizabeth Arden, 23 March 1983, lot 404
Christie's New York, 20 April 2001, lot 116
Christie's New York, 20 April 2001, lot 116
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