Silver and guilloché enamel photograph frame
Lot 83

Silver and guilloché enamel photograph frame

MARKED FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER'S MARK OF VICTOR AARNE, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1885, WITH SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 1147

Closed28 November 2007

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Silver and guilloché enamel photograph frame
marked Fabergé, workmaster's mark of Victor Aarne, St. Petersburg, circa 1885, with scratched inventory number 1147
The oval frame with conforming seed-pearl bezel, surrounded by a band of translucent blue enamel over radiating wavy ground, with gadrooned border, surmounted by a ribbon, ivory back with shaped scroll strut, marked on the rim and strut, in original fitted wooden case, stamped in the cover in Russian 'K. Fabergé St. Petersburg Moscow' with the Imperial warrant
2¾ in. (7 cm.) high

Christie's, London, 17 December 1982, lot 87. The British Ambassador to St. Petersburg, circa 1900. Thence by descent.