BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, 1904-1908, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 11698

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A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE PARASOL HANDLE
BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, 1904-1908, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 11698
The tapering cylindrical nephrite handle with a rose-cut diamond-set gold collar, decorated with rose-cut diamond-set ribbons and bows, centring two cabochon rubies, with original screw fitting, marked on rim with 'Fabergé' in Cyrillic and workmaster's initials
4 1⁄8 in. (10.5 cm.) high, excluding screw

Provenance

Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg (1879-1964), and thence by descent.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 10-12 May 1988, lot 131.
Anonymous sale; Antiquorum, New York, 28 September 2000, lot 171.

Literature

J. Booth, The Art of Fabergé, New York, 1996, p. 138 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg was a member of the House of Holstein-Gottorp. She was the only surviving child of Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and his first wife, Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia. Sophia Charlotte married Prince Eitel Friedrich, the second son of Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia.

The unusual technique of setting nephrite with diamonds is reminiscent of the decoration on the Imperial Alexander Palace Egg created by Henrik Wigström in 1908.

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