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Auction archive: Lot number 108

A FABERGÉ-STYLE ENAMELLED AND JEWELLED GOLD AND HARDSTONE BONBONNIÈRE

Auction 10.12.2002
10 Dec 2002
Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$634 - US$951
Price realised:
£657
ca. US$1,041
Auction archive: Lot number 108

A FABERGÉ-STYLE ENAMELLED AND JEWELLED GOLD AND HARDSTONE BONBONNIÈRE

Auction 10.12.2002
10 Dec 2002
Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$634 - US$951
Price realised:
£657
ca. US$1,041
Beschreibung:

A FABERGÉ-STYLE ENAMELLED AND JEWELLED GOLD AND HARDSTONE BONBONNIÈRE bearing marks imitating those of Fabergé's workmaster Henrik Wigström and other pseudo-Fabergé marks The base of brown and black agate shaped and humoristically carved as a gorilla's head, the eyes inset with rubies, the rim at the base stamped with a stylized acanthus border on a matted gold ground, the slightly raised gold lid enamelled in translucent yellow on an engine-turned ground of concentrical wavy reeding and applied with the Russian Imperial double-headed Eagle studded with old-mine cut diamonds and centred by a sapphire cabochon, surrounded by a laurel wreath tied at the base with a ribbon, eight-cut diamond-set pushpiece 2½ in. (64 mm.) long

Auction archive: Lot number 108
Auction:
Datum:
10 Dec 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

A FABERGÉ-STYLE ENAMELLED AND JEWELLED GOLD AND HARDSTONE BONBONNIÈRE bearing marks imitating those of Fabergé's workmaster Henrik Wigström and other pseudo-Fabergé marks The base of brown and black agate shaped and humoristically carved as a gorilla's head, the eyes inset with rubies, the rim at the base stamped with a stylized acanthus border on a matted gold ground, the slightly raised gold lid enamelled in translucent yellow on an engine-turned ground of concentrical wavy reeding and applied with the Russian Imperial double-headed Eagle studded with old-mine cut diamonds and centred by a sapphire cabochon, surrounded by a laurel wreath tied at the base with a ribbon, eight-cut diamond-set pushpiece 2½ in. (64 mm.) long

Auction archive: Lot number 108
Auction:
Datum:
10 Dec 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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