Live Auction 1571Important Russian Art
A GEM-SET SILVER HARDSTONE BELL-PUSH IN THE FORM OF A TURTLE
Lot 270 PROPERTY OF A GERMAN COLLECTOR

A GEM-SET SILVER HARDSTONE BELL-PUSH IN THE FORM OF A TURTLE

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 4216

Closed24 November 2014

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A GEM-SET SILVER HARDSTONE BELL-PUSH IN THE FORM OF A TURTLE
MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 4216
Stylistically carved as a turtle with jasper shell, on an oval nephrite base, with silver cast articulated head, the burnished silver feet with chased gold claws, the head with rose cut diamond-set eyes, designed as a push-piece, marked on the head and under the tail, also further scratched on the underside of the turtle
3½ in. (9 cm.) long

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 20 April 2000, lot 107.

Specialist note

For a similarly designed bell-push, see Henry Hawley, Fabergé and His Comtemporaries, The Indian Early Minshall Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, 1967, p. 85, no. 41. The form of the hardstone turtle is, furthermore, almost identical to a gold-mounted bloodstone model of a turtle, formerly in the collection of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (1875-1960) and sold Sotheby's, London 12 June 2007, lot 507.