A Russian gilded silver and guilloché enamel bell push, 3rd Artel, St. Petersburg; retailed by Agathon Fabergé, 1908-1917

of shallow dome form, enameled translucent peach over a wavy engine-turned ground, with leaf tip border, raised on bun feet, struck A. Fabergé in Cyrillic and with Cyrillic initials AF, also with 3rd Artel mark, 88 standard

overall good condition
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St. Petersburg's Third Artel was formed by a number of Fabergé's former workmen and was known for creating delicate objects decorated in guilloché enamel. The marks on this bell push were in use in Russia from 1908 to 1928 and it is known that Agathon Fabergé briefly had his own business selling items of jewelry and antiques from 1916 to 1919. He purchased fifty Yusupov Rose Service plates in 1919 through a legal sale, but the government confiscated the porcelains and transferred them to the Hermitage. Shortly thereafter, he was arrested and his property confiscated. This bell push may have been part of the inventory of his short-lived business. See Agafon Faberzhe v krasnom Petrograde, St. Petersburg, 2012.