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Lot 617
  • 617

A Fabergé silver and enamel frame, workmaster Victor Aarne, St Petersburg, 1899-1904

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • silver, enamel, bakelite
  • width 10.8cm, 4 1/4 in.
rectangular, enamelled in translucent peach over wavy engine-turning within opaque white-striped thyrsus staffs wrapped with leaves, the bezel of green enamel with seed pearl corners, ribbon surmount, faux ivory back, silver scroll strut, struck with workmaster's initials and Fabergé in Cyrillic, 88 standard

Literature

Illustrated, G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, 2000, no. 699, p. 274.

Condition

Very good condition, with signs of previous gilding now nearly all worn off. The faux-ivory back presumably later. Attractive and well-made.
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