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A FOUR-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED BOWENITE PHOTOGRAPH FRAME
Lot 213

A FOUR-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED BOWENITE PHOTOGRAPH FRAME

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 47736

Closed6 June 2016

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A FOUR-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED BOWENITE PHOTOGRAPH FRAME
MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 47736
Rectangular, the bowenite panel centring an oval aperture within a bright-cut gold border, enclosing a glazed portrait miniature on mammoth ivory of Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, surmounted by four-colour gold flower garland, all within a bright-cut chased gold outer border, the mammoth ivory back with suspension loop and gold scroll strut, marked on lower rim, loop and strut, the portrait signed on the left border 'Zehngraf'
3 7/8 in. (8.7 cm.) high

Specialist note

Princess Anastasia (1868–1935) was born into the Royal family of Montenegro. Through her second marriage to Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856–1929) in April 1907, she became Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna. Anastasia and her sister Princess Milica were close friends of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and introduced Grigori Rasputin to the Imperial family.

For a comparable Fabergé frame enclosing a miniature of Christian IX of Denmark, see Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé, Kunsthalle of the Hypo Kulturstiftung, Munich, 1986, p. 159.