Property of a European Collector
A Fabergé gold-mounted guilloché enamel candle stick, workmaster Feodor Afanassiev, St Petersburg, 1908-1917
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December 2, 04:59 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a European Collector
A Fabergé gold-mounted guilloché enamel candle stick, workmaster Feodor Afanassiev, St Petersburg, 1908-1917
tapering body enamelled in translucent salmon pink ground, with two wide guilloché enamel bands, on circular base with laurel border, struck on the underside Fabergé in Cyrillic and with workmaster's initials, 88 standard, with scratched inventory number 18891 or 16881
height 6.5cm, 2 1/2in.
New York, A La Vieille Russie, Inc., Fabergé: Exhibition for theBenefit of the Scholarship Fund of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, April 22 - May 21, 1983
Exhibition catalogue Fabergé: Exhibition for theBenefit of the Scholarship Fund of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, New York, A La Vieille Russie, Inc., 1983, n. 261, p.85 listed, p. 86 illustrated