World War I: A Fabergé silver-mounted nephrite cup, workmaster Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, circa 1915

the carved nephrite cup set with two silver medallions on opposite sides, one with the Imperial eagle, the other inscribed "War 1914-1915 K. Fabergé" in Cyrillic, struck with workmaster's initials, 84 standard

Ex coll. Andre Ruzhnikov, Palo Alto, California

overall good condition
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For a comparable cup formerly in the Forbes Magazine Collection, see G. von Habsburg, Fabergé in America, New York, 1996, cat. 288, page 268.