Live Auction 7734Russian Art
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Lot 234

A Silver-Gilt and Guilloché Enamel Belt Buckle

MARKED FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, 1896-1908

Closed9 June 2009

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GBP 8,750

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A Silver-Gilt and Guilloché Enamel Belt Buckle
Marked Fabergé, workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, 1896-1908
Crescent-shaped, the panel enamelled in translucent yellow over a hatched guilloché ground, painted en camaïeu with intertwined ribbon-tied laurel branches, all within raised silver borders, marked on reverse and on belt clasp
2½ in. (11.4 cm.) wide

Specialist note

The decoration on the present belt buckle recalls that of a cigarette-case and vesta-case by Michael Perchin from the collection of Charles Antoine Roger Luzarche d'Azay (see G. von Habsburg and M. Lopato, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweler, New York, 1994, p. 376, no. 279, illustrated).