** A two-color gold, gem-set and guilloch enamel Photograph Frame

MARKED FABERG IN CYRILLIC, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 54499

Details

** A two-color gold, gem-set and guilloch enamel Photograph Frame
marked Faberg in Cyrillic, workmaster Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1890, with scratched inventory number 54499
Shaped triangular, the circular bezel with dot and dash decoration, within translucent red enamel over circular ground set with one rose-cut diamond, the shaped two-colour rim with palmette decoration, the ivory back with scroll strut, marked on rim and strut
2.5/8in. (6.7cm.) high

Provenance

Lord Ivar Mountbatten

Lot Essay

Lord Ivar Mountbatten is descended from the Russian Imperial family through his grandmother, Nadezhda Countess Torby, 2nd Marchioness of Milford Haven. Her father, Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich, the grandson of Nicholas I through his youngest son, was married morganatically to Sophie Countess Merenburg, the daughter of Nicholas Prince of Nassau and his morganatic wife Natalia Aleksandrovna, the daughter of the poet Alexander Pushkin.