Russian Works of Art, Fabergé and Icons
Russian Works of Art, Fabergé and Icons
Property from a Private Collection, Germany
A FABERGÉ GOLD-MOUNTED SILVER AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GUM POT, WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, 1904-1908
Auction Closed
November 26, 06:32 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from a Private Collection, Germany
A FABERGÉ GOLD-MOUNTED SILVER AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GUM POT, WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, 1904-1908
of tapering cylindrical form, enamelled in translucent cherry red over a wavy guilloché ground, the brush with gadrooned moonstone-set gold finial, the mount and brush struck with workmaster's initials and with scratched inventory number 12603, the base with further initials, 88 and 56 standards; with original Fabergé fitted case
height 5.4cm, 2⅛in.
Purchased from the St Petersburg branch of Fabergé by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna on 31 December 1911, for 55 roubles.
The present gum pot is the penultimate in a series of four sequentially numbered gum pots by Fabergé to be identified. The other three known examples are all of identical form, differing only in their unique guilloché patterns and colour.
The series commences with scratched number 12600, an identical gum pot enamelled in light green with a garnet-set finial (sold Sotheby's New York, 20 April 2015, lot 226). Number 12601 is of the same form, enamelled in mauve with a moonstone finial, both held in the Kirsch Collection. For number 12602, an identical gum pot enamelled in light blue, see G. von Habsburg, Fabergé in America, New York, 1996, p. 294, no. 329.
The present example, number 12603, is the final in the series and carries Imperial provenance.
We are grateful for the assistance of Svetlana Chestnykh in researching the present lot.