A Fabergé gilded silver and guilloché enamel photograph frame, workmaster Anders (Antti) Nevalainen, St. Petersburg, 1898-1904

circular, enameled translucent dark orange over a chevron-pattern guilloché ground, the face applied at lower level with laurel wreath and with a bow knot above the beaded bezel about the circular aperture, with anthemia border, shaped strut and mammoth ivory back, struck with workmaster's initials, 88 standard and scratched inventory number 7178

with A la Vieille Russie, New York
Ex coll. Millicent Rogers (1901-1953)

overall good condition; the mammoth ivory back lacking two screws and with a split that has been reglued
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