Details
A JEWELLED, GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE MODEL OF AN ELEPHANT WITH A HOWDAH
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1910, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 20165
Humorously carved, standing, with rose-cut diamond-set eyes, supporting a gold howdah, guilloché enamelled in red and surmounted by a pearl, with an enamelled figure of a mahout, marked on howdah, also with London import marks for 1910; in a fitted Hammer Galleries wood case
2 ½ in. (6.4 cm.) high
Provenance
With Hammer Galleries, New York.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Peter Carl Fabergé Imperial Court Jeweler 1846-1920, Hammer Galleries, New York, 1951, p. 11, no. 23 (listed).
Exhibited
New York, Hammer Galleries, Peter Carl Fabergé Imperial Court Jeweler 1846-1920, 28 March-28 April, 1951, no. 23.
Special notice
These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer’s Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.
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