Fabergé, Gold Boxes & Objets de Luxe
Fabergé, Gold Boxes & Objets de Luxe
A Fabergé silver-gilt and guilloché enamel bell push, workmaster Anders Nevalainen, St Petersburg, 1899-1903
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November 15, 02:35 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 CHF
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Description
A Fabergé silver-gilt and guilloché enamel bell push, workmaster Anders Nevalainen, St Petersburg, 1899-1903
round, the cabochon chalcedony push-piece set within a circle of acanthus leaves, the body enamelled in gamboge orange over wavy engine turning, the gilded lower edge chased and engraved with leaftips and beading, on three flattened bun feet, struck to the side of the mount with workmaster’s initials and K. Fabergé in Cyrillic, 88 standard, scratched inventory number 12746
height 4cm; 1⅝in.
J. Hurtt, 'Cutting the Cord: An Exploration of Fabergé's Mechanical Bell Pushes' in Fabergé Research Newsletter, Fall and Winter 2018 [accessed online 21/10/2022], illustrated
Fabergé was well known for its elegant and sleek designs of objects of utility such as lorgnettes, table lighters and bell pushes. Of the estimated 200,000 objects created by Fabergé during the firms existence, bell pushes only represent 2%, rendering them a select group in the vastness of Fabergé's oeuvre. Unlike the mechanical bell pushes produced elsewhere at the time, Fabergé's bell pushes - as modern as ever - were mostly electric.