Sale 8640
New York, Park Avenue
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15 April 1997
Price realised
USD 19,550
Estimate
A TWO-COLOR GOLD-MOUNTED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GEMSET NEPHRITE BONBONNIÈRE marked Fabergé, workmaster Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, 1899-1908, with scratched inventory number 4560 Compressed circular, the nephrite base and detachable cover with chased and engraved laurel mount, the sides with translucent red enamel over reeded ground embellished with ribbon-tied laurel swags suspended from rose-diamonds, marked on rim of cover 1¾in. (4.6cm.) diam.
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Literature
M.Y. Ghosn, Objets de Vertu par Fabergé, (Paris, 1996), no.110.
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