Property from a Private Collection, USA
A Fabergé gem-set silver, enamel and leather folio cover, Moscow, 1908-1917
Auction Closed
November 25, 06:21 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
In pan-slavic taste, the leather cover applied with a silver reserve decorated with chased stylised foliate scrolls and buds against a matte white and blue enamel ground, centred below with a cabochon gemstone, the inside lined in lavender fabric, struck K. Fabergé in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial Warrant, 88 standard
37.7 cm x 24 cm; 14 7/8 in. x 9 ½ in.
Jackson's Auctioneer's Florida, November 2003, lot 143
For similar Slavic design elements employed in combination with matte enamel, a speciality of Fabergé's Moscow workshops, please compare with a punch bowl and ladle, sold, Replica Shoes ’s London, 25 November 2014, lot 433; and a dark blue-enamelled vase, sold, Christie's Geneva, 18 November 1980, lot 28.
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