A FINE FABERGÉ SILVER-GILT AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL DESK CLOCK, WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917
Auction Closed
November 26, 06:32 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A FINE FABERGÉ SILVER-GILT AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL DESK CLOCK, WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917
square, the body enamelled in salmon pink over a moiré guilloché ground further enriched with finely painted floral swags suspended from ribbon knots in warm sepia tones, wooden back, struck on the edge with workmaster's initials, Fabergé in Cyrillic, 91 standard, scratched inventory number 17841
height 10.5cm, 4⅛in.
For a similarly designed desk clock with sepia swags on opalescent guilloché enamel ground,which was formerly part of the Josiane Woolf Collection, please see G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 210, no. 504.