Live Auction 7906Russian Art
A Silver-Mounted Sandstone Match-Holder
Lot 181

A Silver-Mounted Sandstone Match-Holder

MAKER'S MARK APPARENTLY 'T.N.', ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890

Closed8 June 2010

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A Silver-Mounted Sandstone Match-Holder
Maker's mark apparently 'T.N.', St Petersburg, circa 1890
Carved as a mushroom, on gadrooned base, the cap inset with a circular match-holder and mounted with a small model of a frog, marked under base, in a silk and velvet lined wood box stamped 'Fabergé'
4¼ in. (10.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

For comparable match-holders, see A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé, Juwelier des Zarenhofes: [eine Ausstellung des Museums fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg], Heidelberg, 1995, no. 10, illustrated; and G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 264, No. 664, illustrated.