LOT DETAILS

Materials:

guilloché enamel and varicolor gold

Measurements:

3.54 in. (9.00 cm.) (height)

Description:

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Markings:

Marked Fabergé, with The Workmaster's Mark of Michael Perchin, St Petersburg, 1899-1903, scratched inventory number 2707

Condition:

with coloured gold paillons depicting trophies of the Arts within floral wreaths, the door with handle opening to reveal the interior lined with mother-of-pearl, the top panel surmounted by four pine-cone finials, with two detachable gold reeded poles mounted with mother-of-pearl handles

Exhibited:

Helsinki, The Museum of Applied Arts, Fabergé and his Contemporaries, 1980, no. 5. Helsinki, 1988. Helsinki, 1990. Helsinki, Museum of Arts and Crafts, 1991. St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum; Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller, 18 June 1993 – 10 April 1994, no. 253. Stockholm, Christie’s, 1996. Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Tsar, 6 June 1996 – 19 October 1997, no. 150. Lahti, The Lahti Art Museum, Fabergé: Loistavaa kultasepäntaidetta, 14 March – 4 May 1997. Wilmington, Riverfront Arts Center, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, 8 September 2000 – 18 February 2001, no. 432. Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé - Cartier, Rivalen am Zarenhof, 28 November 2003 – 12 April 2004, no. 70. Tampere, Museums in Finland and Moscow Kremlin Museum, The Era of Fabergé, 17 June – 1 October 2006, no. 39. Shanghai, Christie’s, October 2014. Minneapolis, The Museum of Russian Art, Unknown Fabergé: New Finds and Re-discoveries, 8 October 2016 – 26 February 2017, no. 49.

Literature:

G. von Habsburg, A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé: Court Jeweler to the Tsars, New York, 1979, pl. 89, 90. A. Kenneth Snowman, Carl Fabergé Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia, London, 1980, p. 38 (illustrated). A. Tillander, Fabergé and his Contemporaries, Helsinki, 1980, p. 11, no. 5 (illustrated). G. von Habsburg, M. Lopato, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller, Milan, 1993, p. 358, no. 253 (illustrated). E. Welander-Berggren, Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Tsar, Stockholm, 1996, p. 176, no. 150 (illustrated). G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 187, no. 432 (illustrated). G. von Habsburg, Fabergé - Cartier, Rivalen am Zarenhof, Munich, 2003, p. 166, no. 70 (illustrated). G. von Habsburg, Fabergé gestern und heute, Munich, 2005, p. 49, no. 70 (illustrated). M. Saloniemi, U. Tillander-Godenhielm, T. Boettger, The Era of Fabergé, Tampere, 2006, p. 18, no. 39 (illustrated). U. Tillander-Godenhielm, Fabergé: ja hänen suomalaiset mestarinsa, Helsinki, 2008, pp. 187-188 (illustrated). U. Tillander-Godenhielm, Fabergén suomalaiset mestarit, Hämeenlinna, 2011, pp. 82-83 (illustrated). M. Moehrke, Unknown Fabergé: New Finds and Re-discoveries, Minneapolis, 2016, pp. 90-91, no. 49 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Purchased from Fabergé by Maximillian Othmar Neuscheller, a Dutch born rubber industry magnate. Thence by descent. The Property of the late Max Othmar Neuscheller and his son Leo Neuscheller; Christie’s, Geneva, 26 April 1978, lot 382. With Wartski, London, 1981. Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner in 1981.