A GEM-SET SILVER POT IN THE FORM OF A FROG

MARKED FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF JULIUS RAPPOPORT, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 3588

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A GEM-SET SILVER POT IN THE FORM OF A FROG
MARKED FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF JULIUS RAPPOPORT, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 3588
Humorously modelled as a seated frog, with his head up, open mouth and holding his left foreleg to his chest, detachable head, the eyes set with cabochon garnets, marked under base; also with French control marks
3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) high
10.2 oz. (317.2 gr.) gross

Provenance

Christie's, London, 13 June 2007, lot 239.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

A nearly identical lighter in the form of a frog from the Woolf Family Collection was included in the travelling exhibition Fabergé: Orfèvre des Tsars. See, exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: Orfèvre des Tsars, St Petersburg, Paris, London, 1993-1994, pp. 324-325, no. 204. Also see, G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 112, nos. 160, 162.

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