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PROBABLY BY HAHN, MAKER’S MARK OF ALEXANDER TREIDEN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 39320
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A JEWELLED GOLD MINIATURE TANKARD
PROBABLY BY HAHN, MAKER’S MARK OF ALEXANDER TREIDEN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 39320
The egg-shaped body reeded, the hinged cover applied with a gold rouble of Catherine II of 1779, with scroll thumb-piece set with a cabochon ruby, and angular handle enclosing a rosette set with cabochon rubies and sapphires, marked under base, also with import marks
2½ in. (6.3 cm.) high
PROBABLY BY HAHN, MAKER’S MARK OF ALEXANDER TREIDEN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 39320
The egg-shaped body reeded, the hinged cover applied with a gold rouble of Catherine II of 1779, with scroll thumb-piece set with a cabochon ruby, and angular handle enclosing a rosette set with cabochon rubies and sapphires, marked under base, also with import marks
2½ in. (6.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 10 June 2009, lot 563.
Special notice
Items which contain rubies or jadeite originating in Burma (Myanmar) may not be imported into the U.S. Please be advised that a purchasers inability to import any such item into the U.S. or any other country shall not constitute
grounds for non-payment or cancellation of the sale.
With respect to items that contain any other types of gemstones originating
in Burma (e.g., sapphires), such items may be imported into the U.S.,
provided that the gemstones have been mounted or incorporated into jewellery outside of Burma and provided that the setting is not of a temporary nature (e.g., a string).
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