Gold Boxes, Fabergé and Objects of Vertu
Gold Boxes, Fabergé and Objects of Vertu
A Fabergé silver-mounted cut-glass two-handled presentation bowl, Moscow, 1906
Auction Closed
May 25, 03:15 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Fabergé silver-mounted cut-glass two-handled presentation bowl, Moscow, 1906
in the Neoclassical style, the plain polished stand chased and engraved with repeated pattern of festoons draped over eagles standing between palmettes, the lower edge chased and engraved with an acanthus leaf border, the angular handles surmounted by pinecone finials, the front of the body engraved with the inscription ‘To the representative of K Fabergé, O.G. Jarke’, the reverse inscribed ‘From the devoted staff of the factory, 20 February 1906’, apparently unmarked
width across handles 20.4cm; 8 in.
This bowl was presented to Otto Fritz Gustavovich Jarke, director of the Fabergé factory in Moscow between 1906 and 1912. Born in 1875, Jarke was a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War. Alongside being Fabergé’s chief book-keeper, he worked as a merchant, agent, and eventually succeeded Alan Bowe as Fabergé’s chief spokesperson in Moscow (W. Lowes & C.L. McCanless, Fabergé Eggs: A Retrospective Encyclopedia, London, 2001, p. 210).