A JEWELED PARCEL-GILT SILVER-MOUNTED OAK PRESENTATION DESK
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A JEWELED PARCEL-GILT SILVER-MOUNTED OAK PRESENTATION DESK

MARKED K. FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1906

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A JEWELED PARCEL-GILT SILVER-MOUNTED OAK PRESENTATION DESK
MARKED K. FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1906
The inside of the cover applied with interlaced Cyrillic initials 'AB' and an inscription in Russian 'IN TOKEN OF GRATITUDE FROM THE EMPLOYEES 1906,' together with a suede covered blotter, mounted and applied with the Cyrillic initials 'AB' and a plaque engraved with an inscription in Russian 'FROM THE GRATEFUL EMPLOYEES OF THE FIRM OF K. FABERGÉ. 1906,' marked throughout
The desk 16 in. (40.5 cm.) x 19¼ in. (49 cm.); the blotter 14½ in. (37 cm.) x 9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) (2)
來源
Henry Allan Talbot Bowe (1856-1939).
Sotheby's, London, June 20, 1977, lot 187.
出版
A. Odom, "Fabergé: The Moscow Workshops," Fabergé Imperial Jeweller (New York, 1993), pp. 105, 106, 110, illustrated p. 107.

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The above desk was presented to Allan Bowe by the employees of Fabergé's Moscow branch. Bowe was Carl Fabergé's business partner, and together in 1887 they founded the firm's Moscow branch on Kuznetsky Most. Bowe was an efficient and commercially successful manager, and during his tenure the Moscow branch gained distinction for its production of works in the Neo-Russian style, of which present lot is an important example.

Allan Bowe was also instrumental in the establishment of further Fabergé branches in London, Kiev and Odessa. In all, his partnership with Fabergé lasted almost twenty years, until it was dissolved in 1906. The above desk was presented to Bowe upon his departure from the firm.

A silver tray presented to Allan Bowe in 1895 (Important Works of Art by Fabergé from the Forbes Collection, Christie's, New York, April 19, 2002, lot 99) provides an interesting object study into the extent to which the style of Fabergé's silver production in Moscow had changed over the course of a decade.

For a further discussion of the production of Fabergé's Moscow workshops, see A. Odom, "Fabergé: The Moscow Workshops," Fabergé Imperial Jeweller (New York, 1993), pp. 104-115.

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