Lot 116
  • 116

a fabergé gilded silver and translucent enamel folding-screen photograph frame, workmaster Johan Victor Aarne, circa 1900

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • marked with Cyrillic initials of workmaster, Fabergé in Cyrillic, and 88 standard
  • Height 5 in.
  • 12.7 cm
each hinged rectangular panel enameled a deep pink over a wavy guilloché ground, the oval apertures surrounded by pearls and haging from a bow knot, the border chased with acanthus leaves

Exhibited

New York, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Fabergé, 1983, no. 77.

Literature

A la Vieille Russie, Fabergé: A Loan Exhibition for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 1983, pp. 46, 48, no. 77.

Condition

the enamel with minor repairs; the back cracked in the corners
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