A Jeweled and Enameled Gold Cigarette Case

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST. PETERSBURG, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 20162

Details

A Jeweled and Enameled Gold Cigarette Case
Marked Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, 1908-1917, scratched inventory number 20162
Rectangular with rounded corners, enameled overall with opaque white enamel stripes between bright-cut borders, the ends with trails of green and red enamel leaves and berries, the hinged cover with a diamond-set thumb-piece, one end fitted with a vesta compartment enclosing a match strike, marked inside cover and base
3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) long

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, June 14, 1999, lot 323.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The ledgers of Fabergé's London branch record that this cigarette case was sold to Mrs. P. Nelke on June 14, 1910 for 303 rubles.

Related designs are illustrated in U. Tillander-Godenhielm, et al, Golden Years of Fabergé: Drawings and Objects from the Wigström Workshop, Paris, 2000, pp. 48-49 and 159, pl. 125.

For a comparable cigarette case, see The Manolo March Collection from Son Galceran, Mallorca, Christie's, London, October 29, 2009, lot 442.

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