Lot 251
251
A LACQUERED TWO-COLOUR GOLD BONBONNIÈRE
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A LACQUERED TWO-COLOUR GOLD BONBONNIÈRE

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 3845

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A LACQUERED TWO-COLOUR GOLD BONBONNIÈRE
MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 3845
Circular, the cover and base with cinnabar lacquer within alternating rose and yellow gold rays, the cover centred with a chased yellow gold rosette within concentric borders chased with a guilloché pattern, inscribed inside cover in Russian: '21 July 1918 less than tomorrow 21 July 1923 more than yesterday’, marked inside cover and base
2 in. (5.2 cm.) diameter
Provenance
The Josiane Woolf Collection (Part II); Christie's, Geneva, 12 May 1981, lot 103.
Literature
G. von Habsburg, Du: Europäisches Kunstzeitschrift, vol. xxxvii, 1977, p. 70, no. 442
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Lot Essay

The present lot is a typical example of Fabergé’s adaptation of the Louis XVI idiom to a contemporary object of function. The influence of gold objects of the Louis XVI period on Fabergé is well documented; the celebrated copy of a snuff-box by J.E. Blérzy by head workmaster Michael Perchin is a particularly illustrative example (C. Forbes & R. Tromeur-Brenner, Fabergé: The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, pp. 144-145). In addition to enamelled gold objects, Fabergé also produced lacquered gold objects in the Louis XVI idiom, such as the present lot. Another example of a lacquered gold bonbonnière by Fabergé was sold Christie's, London, 29 November 2010, lot 267.

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