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A Fabergé gold-mounted agate bonbonnière, workmaster Erik Kollin, St Petersburg, circa 1890

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June 9, 01:51 PM GMT

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12,000 - 18,000 GBP

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A Fabergé gold-mounted agate bonbonnière, workmaster Erik Kollin, St Petersburg, circa 1890


Of egg form, on a rose gold gadrooned baluster-shaped tapering foot, with a beaded border, the detachable cover with a fan-shaped gadrooned gold handle, marked on mounts with workmaster's initials, with later Soviet marks, scratched inventory number 40385

height 11.5cm, 4½ in.

Agathon Fabergé
Leo Wainstein collection
With A. Tillander, Helsinki
Acquired from the above location in 1979
An Important Collection of Fabergé Masterpieces and Imperial Treasures
Christie's London, 27 November 2017, lot 206
Fabergé and his Contemporaries, The Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki, 1980, no. 4
Fabergé, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, 5 December 1986 – 8 March 1987, no. 274
Carl Fabergé: Kostbarkeiten russischer Goldschmiedekunst der Jahrhundertwende, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, 31 May – 3 September 1989, no. 194
Helsinki, 1988
Helsinki, 1990
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Helsinki, 1991
Smycken: Från Det Kejserliga S:t Petersburg, Helsinki, 1995, no. 123
Christie’s, Stockholm, 1996
Fabergé and Finland: Exquisite Objects, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1996
Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Tsar, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 6 June 1996 – 19 October 1997, no. 83
Lahti, The Lahti Art Museum, Fabergé: Loistavaa kultasepäntaidetta, 14 March – 4 May 1997.
Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, Riverfront Arts Center, Wilmington, 8 September 2000 – 18 February 2001, no. 298
The Era of Fabergé, Museums in Finland and Moscow Kremlin Museum, Tampere, 17 June – 1 October 2006, no. 40
A. Tillander, Fabergé and his Contemporaries, Helsinki, 1980, no. 4, p. 9, illustrated
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé, Munich, 1986 – 1987, no. 274, p. 180, illustrated
S. Barten, Carl Fabergé: Kostbarkeiten russischer Goldschmiedekunst der Jahrhundertwende, Zurich, 1989, no. 194, p. 156
U. Tillander-Godenhielm, Smycken: Från Det Kejserliga S:t Petersburg, Helsinki, 1996, no. 123, p. 130, illustrated
E. Welander-Berggren, Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Tsar, Stockholm, 1996, no. 83, p. 132, illustrated
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, no. 298, p. 154, illustrated
M. Saloniemi, U. Tillander-Godenhielm, T. Boettger, The Era of Fabergé, Tampere, 2006, no.40, pp. 22 & 158, illustrated
U. Tillander-Godenhielm, Fabergé: ja hänen suomalaiset mestarinsa, Helsinki, 2008, p. 60, illustrated
U. Tillander-Godenhielm, Fabergén suomalaiset mestarit, Hämeenlinna, 2011, pp. 54-55, illustrated
U. Tillander-Godenhielm, Fabergé and his Masters and ArtisansUnicorn, London, 2018, pp. 60-61, illustrated