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A Jewelled Silver-Gilt Guilloché Enamel and Hardstone Charka
Lot 160 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF CATHERINE HALFF EDSON

A Jewelled Silver-Gilt Guilloché Enamel and Hardstone Charka

BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF ANDERS NEVALAINEN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 2164

Closed13 April 2011

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A Jewelled Silver-Gilt Guilloché Enamel and Hardstone Charka
By Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Anders Nevalainen, St. Petersburg, circa 1890, scratched inventory number 2164
Hemispherical on a spreading circular foot, the lobed body enamelled in translucent green over a hatched guilloché ground, the handle incorporating a swivel-mounted coin depicting Empress Catherine II and part-enamelled in translucent red over a hatched guilloché ground, with nephrite and red cabochon hardstone terminals, marked under base
2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a charka of similar form by Michael Perchin, see the Kazan Collection of Fabergé, Christie's, New York, 15 April 1997, lot 55; G. von Habsburg and A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé: Court Jeweler to the Tsars, Fribourg, 1979, pl. 24, illustrated; and M.Y. Ghosn, Objets de Vertu par Fabergé, Paris, 1996, p. 139, No. 52, illustrated.