A Highly Important Fabergé Varicolored Gold-Mounted Nephrite Desk Set, Workmaster Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1903-1912

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Property Formerly in the collection of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza

A Highly Important Fabergé Varicolored Gold-Mounted Nephrite Desk Set, Workmaster Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1903-1912

all finely carved of nephrite and mounted in two-colour gold and silver-gilt, assembled of two sets, the first comprising a standing clock, an inkpot, match box, bell-push, blotter, tray, pen and propelling pencil, struck with workmaster's initials, Fabergé in Cyrillic, 56 standard, 1903, scratched inventory number 11925, the second comprising a table clock, a pair of candlesticks and a gum-pot, struck with workmaster's initials, 56 standard, 1904-1908

the standing clock 20.5cm, 8 in. high

Please note that the hinged mount around the inset clock of the smaller table clock is silver-gilt.

The first eight pieces; Sir Bernard Eckstein (1894–1948) Collection, Sotheby's, London, 8 February 1949, lot 134
Farouk I, King of Egypt (1936-1965) until 1952
Sotheby & Co., The Palace Collections of Egypt, Koubbeh Palace, Cairo, March 10, 1954, lot 146
The group of four; Dr. James Hasson Collection
Baron Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano
Thence by descent

K. Snowman, The Art of Carl Fabergé, London, 1962, figs. 179 and 187
The group of four; H.C Bainbridge, Peter Carl Fabergé, Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court, London, 1966, pl. 41
Exhibition catalogue Fabergé: Exhibition for the Benefit of the Scholarship Fund of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, New York, A La Vieille Russie, Inc., 1983, no. 314, p. 99 illustrated
A. Somers-Cocks and C. Truman, Renaissance Jewels, Gold Boxes and Objets de vertu in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, London, 1984, no. 125, p. 343 illustrated
Exhibition catalogue G. Von Habsburg, Fabergé, Jeweller to the Tsar, London, 1987, no. 241, p. 170 illustrated
U. Ball, S. Barten, Carl Fabergé: Kostbarkeiten russischer Goldschmiedekunst der Jahrhunderwende: (Austellung), Museum Bellerive, Zurich, 1989, no. 67, pp. 91, 92 illustrated
Exhibition catalogue G. Von Habsburg and M. Lopato, Fabergé Imperial Jeweller, London, 1993, no. 264, p. 366 illustrated

New York, A La Vielle Russie, Fabergé, A Loan Exhibition for the benefit of the scholarship Fund of The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, April 22, 1983 - May 21, 1983
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé, Juwelier der Zaren, December 5, 1986 - February 22, 1987
Zurich, Museum Bellerive, Carl Fabergé, Kostbarkeiten Russischer Goldschmiedekunst der Jahrhundertwende, 1989
St Petersburg, Paris and London, Fabergé Imperial Jeweller, 1993-1994