Live Auction 2546Russian Works of Art
A JEWELED SILVER-MOUNTED GOLD BROOCH
Lot 2

A JEWELED SILVER-MOUNTED GOLD BROOCH

BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF OSKAR PIHL, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890

Closed16 April 2012

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A JEWELED SILVER-MOUNTED GOLD BROOCH
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF OSKAR PIHL, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890
A gold-mounted rose-cut diamond bar brooch, the tapered end with three suspended gold-mounted rose-cut diamonds, marked on mount, in the original fitted case stamped in Russian 'K. Faberge Moscow St. Petersburg,' beneath the Imperial warrant
1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) long

Sotheby's, London, December 15, 1995, lot 597 (part).

Specialist note

Oskar Pihl (1860-1897), who apprenticed in the St. Petersburg workshop of August Holmström, managed Fabergé's Moscow jewelry workshop until his death in 1897. The present brooch can be dated to 1887-1897, the period in which Pihl was active in Moscow. The stamp on the inside cover of the box further dates the brooch as pre-1900; Odessa was added to the stamp when the new branch of the firm was opened in 1900.