Live Auction 20821A Selection of Fabergé Masterpieces from the Harry Woolf Collection
A GEM-SET SILVER-MOUNTED HARDWOOD KOVSH
Lot 73

A GEM-SET SILVER-MOUNTED HARDWOOD KOVSH

BY FABERGÉ, MOSCOW, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 24723

Closed29 November 2021

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A GEM-SET SILVER-MOUNTED HARDWOOD KOVSH
BY FABERGÉ, MOSCOW, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 24723
In the form of a stylised duck, the carved wooden body applied with openwork silver mounts, chased with scrolls in the neo-Russian style, set with cabochon garnet eyes, the silver head mount decorated with two green hardstone pendants and a finial, marked on mounts with ‘K. Fabergé’ in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial Warrant
5 1⁄2 in. (14 cm.) long

Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna (1854-1920), née Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 11 May 1983, lot 280.

Specialist note

Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna (1854-1920), also known as Maria Pavlovna the Elder, was an avid collector of Fabergé. She was the daughter of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna married the third son of Emperor Alexander II, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich (1847-1909). Considered one of the most imposing of the Grand Duchesses, she lived with her husband at Vladimir Palace on the Palace Embankment on the Neva River, where she earned a reputation as one of the finest hostesses in the capital.