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A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED AGATE AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL CASE
Lot 203

A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED AGATE AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL CASE

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917

Closed28 November 2011

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A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED AGATE AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL CASE
MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917
Of octagonal section, enamelled in translucent green over moiré guilloché ground within dotted gold bands, the sides mounted with agate panels framed by diamond-set borders and finely engraved in the Persian Nasta'liq script 'The path towards truth is what we hold fast to', the hinged cover with a diamond-set thumb-piece, in a fitted red leather Wartski case, marked inside base and cover
2 5/8 in. (5.8 cm.) wide

Christie's, Geneva, 16 November 1988, lot 124.
Christie's, London, 13 June 2007, lot 238.

Specialist note

For a similarly enamelled case by Michael Perchin, mounted with two carnelians inscribed in Arabic, see G. von Habsburg, Fabergé Revealed at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 2011, p. 230, no. 128.