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A GOLD-MOUNTED DIAMOND AND SAPPHIRE IMPERIAL TERCENTENARY PRESENTATION PENDANT
Lot 217

A GOLD-MOUNTED DIAMOND AND SAPPHIRE IMPERIAL TERCENTENARY PRESENTATION PENDANT

BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF AUGUST HOLMSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1913, SCRATCHED CABINET NUMBER 3656

Closed26 November 2012

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A GOLD-MOUNTED DIAMOND AND SAPPHIRE IMPERIAL TERCENTENARY PRESENTATION PENDANT
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF AUGUST HOLMSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1913, SCRATCHED CABINET NUMBER 3656
Semi-circular, centring an Imperial double-headed eagle set with a sapphire, flanked by openwork scrolls and dates '1613 - 1913', suspending a cap of the Monomakh set with three diamonds within a square mount, suspending three sapphires, original chain, marked on mounts and chain loops
2½ in. (6.4 cm.) high

Acquired by the Cabinet of His Imperial Majesty from Fabergé's St Petersburg branch in 1913 for 90 roubles.
Acquired by the family of the present owner in the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 20th century.

Specialist note

A tercentenary pendant of the same design, but set with amethysts rather than sapphires, is illustrated in K. Snowman, Fabergé: Lost and Found, London, 1993, p. 126.
Holmström's tercentenary collection consisted of six different models for pendants, of which 113 examples were made (U. Tillander-Godenhielm, The Russian Imperial Award System 1894-1917, Helsinki, 2005, p. 194).

We are grateful to Dr Valentin Skurlov for helping research the present lot.