A rare Fabergé silver Cossack trophy, Moscow, 1899-1908

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A rare Fabergé silver Cossack trophy, Moscow, 1899-1908

Cast and chased depicting military trophies, Cossack papakha hat, saddle and flasks amongst laurel leaves, centring a circular medallion within ribbon-tied laurel border, on rectangular pedestal, with three supports shaped as spears, struck to reverse with K.Fabergé in Cyrillic beneath imperial warrant, 84 standard

height 21.5cm, 8 1/2in.

Fabergé Imperial Craftsman and his World, USA, 2000, no. 136

G. von Habsburg, Fabergé Imperial Craftsman and his World, Booth-Clibborn Editions, London, 2000, no. 136, p. 98, illustrated

The collection of the Alexander Palace in Tsarkoe Selo holds a box shaped as a Louis XV Commode which is applied with a similarly designed military trophy (Pavlosk Palace Inv. Ts Kh-753-VII) inscribed: 'To Her Imperial Majesty Empress Feodorovna from her loyal and devoted Orenburg Cossack Women' (G. von Habsburg & M. Lopato, exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg & Fabergé Arts Foundation, Washington D.C., 1993, no. 32, p. 195, illustrated)