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A Fabergé silver, guilloché enamel and seed pearl frame, workmaster Viktor Aarne, St Petersburg, circa 1890

Auction Closed

November 25, 06:21 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

rectangular, the oval aperture framed by seed-pearls, on a translucent white enamel ground over sunbursts, within a plain silver border, the outer body of translucent chestnut-coloured enamel over waved engine-turning, reeded silver border, ivorine reverse, scroll strut, stuck on edge and strut with Fabergé in Cyrillic, workmaster's initials, 88 standard, scratched inventory number 1153

 

height 7 cm, 2 3/4 in.

Christie's New York, The Kazan Collection, 15 April 1997, lot 52;

Sotheby’s New York, Gallison Hall: The James F. Scott Collection, 15 October 2018, lot 174 

A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé, London, 1988, illus. p. 92

M.Y. Ghosn, Objets de Vertu par Fabergé, Paris, 1996, no. 35