Live Auction 5961Important Russian Art
A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GUM-POT
Lot 257

A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GUM-POT

BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, 1903-1917

Closed26 November 2012

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A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GUM-POT
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, 1903-1917
Shaped as a pear, the cover formed as a gold stem and leaf enamelled in translucent green and brown-red, rose-cut diamond finial, marked inside cover
2¾ in. (7 cm.) high

Specialist note

A design for a similar bowenite pear-shaped gum-pot appears in U. Tillander-Godenhielm, et al., Golden Years of Fabergé: Drawings and Objects from the Wigström Workshop, Paris, 2000, pp. 14-15, pl. 5. Another related nephrite gum-pot was sold Christie's, Geneva, 11 May 1983, lot 344.