Lot 208
208
A PAIR OF GEM-SET ENAMEL THREE-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED CUT GLASS SCENT-BOTTLES
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A PAIR OF GEM-SET ENAMEL THREE-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED CUT GLASS SCENT-BOTTLES

MARK OF FABERGÉ, MOSCOW, 1899-1908, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 11288

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A PAIR OF GEM-SET ENAMEL THREE-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED CUT GLASS SCENT-BOTTLES
MARK OF FABERGÉ, MOSCOW, 1899-1908, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 11288
Each cylindrical glass bottle carved with spiral flutes and floral sprays, mounted with two-colour gold ribbon-tied laurel border and applied with green gold ribbon-tied laurel swags suspended from rose gold floral crests, the detachable cover enamelled in translucent rose over a striped guilloché ground, with cabochon emerald finial within an acanthus mount, applied with vertical laurel vines and a horizontal ribbon-tied laurel mount, further decorated with a border champlevé enamelled in white and applied with trails of bellflowers, with a glass stopper, marked on mounts
5½ in. (14 cm.) high
Literature
A. K. Snowman, The Art of Carl Fabergé, London, 1964, pl. 163.

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Lot Essay

For a comparable pair of scent bottles, see G. Hill, G. G. Smorodina, B. L. Ulyanova, Fabergé and the Russian Master Goldsmiths, New York, 1989, pl. 259. Another comparable pair of scent bottles from the former collection of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, was sold Christie’s, London, 13 June 2006, lot 130.

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