
Important Gold Boxes and Vertu from a Private Family Collection
Lot Closed
May 13, 10:02 AM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 CHF
Lot Details
Description
of rectangular form, enamelled in chartreuse yellow, the outer edge with a yellow gold laurel wreath border with pink gold ribbon ties, the pink gold bezel chased with leaftips, in a fitted Wartski case, with a mammoth ivory reverse, struck to the strut and left edge with workmaster's initials and Fabergé in Cyrillic, 56 standard, scratched inventory number 57790 and further later scratched numbers
7.5 cm, 3 in. high
Endangered species
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Purchased by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna from the Fabergé St Petersburg branch on 18 August 1897 for 125 roubles
Gosudarstvennyi muzei-zapovednik Pavlovsk: Polnyi katalog kollektsii, vol. IX, p. 205
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