Lot 49
  • 49

A Fabergé gold-mounted silver and guilloché enamel photograph frame, Moscow, 1899-1908

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Silver, gold, enamel, wood
  • height 7 in., 17.8 cm
of house form, enameled translucent white over a guilloché ground, the four corners painted with bouquets en grisaille, the border with a dot and dash pattern, the bezel with varicolor gold ribbon-tied laurel wreath and surmounted by a red gold bow, the front hung with two varicolor gold swags of laurel, struck K. Fabergé in Cyrillic with Imperial warrant on the border, apparently without quality or standard mark, and with scratched inventory number 26961; the bezel with KF in Cyrillic and 56 standard

Provenance

Millicent Rogers (1901-1953)
Thence by descent

Condition

overall good condition; the wood back with some age-related wear
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