Sale 3730
New York
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20 May 2015
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EUGENE V. THAW
Price realised
USD 15,000
Estimate
A JEWELED SILVER AND NEPHRITE MAGNIFYING GLASS BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 45502 OR 49502 Circular, the side of the silver mount cast and chased with a continuous guilloché pattern, the edges cast and chased with egg and dart motif, enclosing a convex glass, the upper part of the handle applied with intertwining snakes with diamond set eyes, the heads set with yellow diamonds, with tapering nephrite cylindrical lower section, marked on upper handle 6¾ in. (17.1 cm.) long
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Comparable Fabergé magnifying glasses with nephrite handles were sold Christie's, London, June 2, 2014, lot 205 and Christie's, London, 2014, lot 250.
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