View full screen - View 1 of Lot 3. An important Fabergé miniature jewelled, nephrite and guilloché enamel kovsh, probably St Petersburg, circa 1900.

Property of a Gentleman (lots 1-3, 54, 100-110)

An important Fabergé miniature jewelled, nephrite and guilloché enamel kovsh, probably St Petersburg, circa 1900

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June 9, 01:03 PM GTNN

Estimate

18,000 - 25,000 GBP

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Property of a Gentleman (lots 1-3, 54, 100-110)

An important Fabergé miniature jewelled, nephrite and guilloché enamel kovsh, probably St Petersburg, circa 1900 


Of traditional shape with oval bowl, the gold-mounted handle of translucent red enamel over guilloché ground, within rose-cut diamond borders terminating with a seed pearl, apparently unmarked, in a fitted box from A La Vieille Russie, New York

length 6.5cm, 2 5/8 in.

A La Vieille Russie, New York, July 1976
The Mr and Mrs Lansdell K. Christie collects ion of Fabergé, Long Island, New York
A La Vieille Russie, New York
Forbes collects ion, Christie’s, New York, 19 April 2002, lot 125
Private collects ion, UK
Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine collects ion, Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1983/84, no. 2
Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine collects ion, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1984, no. 11
Fabergé in America, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art,16 February - 28 April 1996, San Francisco, M.H. De Young Museum, 25 May - 28 July 1996, Richmond, Virginia Museum of Replica Handbags s, 24 August - 3 November 1996, New Orleans Museum of Art, 7 December 1996 - 9 February 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art, 12 March - 11 May 1997, no. 192, cat. p. 204, ill.
J. McNab-Dennis, 'Fabergé's Objects of Fantasy", Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. 23(n.s.), March 1965, p. 234, illustrated
H. Waterfield & C. Forbes, Fabergé Imperial Eggs and Other Fantasies, New York, 1978, no. 131, pp. 101, 132, illustrated
E. Brown, E. "When Easter t.mes Was Fabergé t.mes ", New York t.mes s Magazines, 15 April 1979, p. 65, illustrated
A. von Solodkoff, Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, New York, 1984, p. 165, illustrated
M. Kelly, Highlights from the Forbes Magazine collects ion, New York, 1985, p. 23, illustrated
C. Forbes, "Forbes' Fabulous Fabergé", USA Today, Vol. 117, July 1988, p. 40, illustrated
C. Forbes & R. Tromeur-Brenner, Fabergé, The Forbes collects ion, New York, 1999, pp. 162-163, illustrated