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A Gold-Mounted Aventurine Quartz Beaker
Lot 17

A Gold-Mounted Aventurine Quartz Beaker

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 47698

Closed2 December 2009

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A Gold-Mounted Aventurine Quartz Beaker
Marked Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St Petersburg, circa 1890, scratched inventory number 47698
The tapering cylindrical hardstone cup mounted on a spreading circular foot, mounted à cage with cast and chased scrolls and trellis pattern, marked under base
2½ in. (6.3 cm.) high

Specialist note

The present beaker is comparable with a Rococo style gold-mounted bowenite beaker by Michael Perchin illustrated in G. von Hapsburg, M. Lopato, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweler, London, 1993, p. 357, No. 251.