A Fabergé jewelled, varicoloured gold, guilloché enamel and kalgan jasper desk clock, workmaster Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1904

VAT applies to hammer price and buyer's premium

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May 13, 10:30 AM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

the kalgan jasper body and plinth divided by a yellow and pink gold acanthus leaf border, the bezel set with a row of rose-cut diamonds, the white opaque enamel dial with Arabic chapters and gold open scrollwork hands, surmounted by a yellow, pink and green gold floral swags, with a pink guilloché enamel plaque below the dial applied with a gold mistletoe branches tied with a rose-gold ribbon, centred by a diamond, the hinged gold door on the reverse applied with a gadrooned circular handle, opening to reveal a fine Swiss movement marked ‘RA’ and inscribed 51083, on four gadrooned feet, struck on the reverse on the acanthus border with workmaster’s initials, 56 standard

8.5 cm, 3 1/4 in. high

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Sotheby's Parke Bernet New York, Russian Works of Art, 10 December 1974, lot 405

Acquired from the above sale by the family of the present owners

For a sketch of a related clock with stepped foot and top, ornamented with swags, please see U. Tillander-Godenhielm et al., Golden Years of Fabergé: Drawings and Objects from the Wigström Workshop, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 2000, p. 163.

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