Lot 69
  • 69

A Fabergé Carved Nephrite, Gold, Enamel, and Seed Pearl Parasol Handle, Workmaster Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, circa 1910

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • marked with workmaster's initials and with 56 standard, also with scratched inventory number 22456
  • Nephrite, gold, enamel, seed pearls
  • Height 3 in.
  • 7.6 cm
the handle carved as a cushion-shaped disk, the collar within gold bands set with seed pearls and enameled translucent pink over a wavy guilloché ground, with dendritic tendrils painted en camaïeu rose

Provenance

Sotheby's, Geneva, November 12, 1980, lot 398.

Exhibited

A la Vieille Russie, New York, "Fabergé," 1983, no. 263.

Literature

A la Vieille Russie, Fabergé: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 1983, p. 89.

Condition

overall good condition
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