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Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: an imperial Fabergé varicoloured gold and guilloché enamel miniature photograph frame, workmaster Michael Perkhin, St Petersburg, circa 1890

Lot Closed

May 13, 10:02 AM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

of rectangular form, enamelled in chartreuse yellow, the outer edge with a yellow gold laurel wreath border with pink gold ribbon ties, the pink gold bezel chased with leaftips, in a fitted Wartski case, with a mammoth ivory reverse, struck to the strut and left edge with workmaster's initials and Fabergé in Cyrillic, 56 standard, scratched inventory number 57790 and further later scratched numbers


7.5 cm, 3 in. high


Endangered species


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Purchased by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna from the Fabergé St Petersburg branch on 18 August 1897 for 125 roubles

Gosudarstvennyi muzei-zapovednik Pavlovsk: Polnyi katalog kollektsii, vol. IX, p. 205