Live Auction 14238Important Russian Art
A GEM-SET SILVER AND GOLD CIGAR CUTTER
Lot 205 AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF FABERGÉ MASTERPIECES AND IMPERIAL TREASURES

A GEM-SET SILVER AND GOLD CIGAR CUTTER

BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF ERIK KOLLIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 53820

Closed27 November 2017

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A GEM-SET SILVER AND GOLD CIGAR CUTTER
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF ERIK KOLLIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 53820
Shaped as a saw, with silver blade, reeded at the top, the shaped gold handle set with a cabochon sapphire, marked on blade and handle
3¼ in. (8.4 cm.) wide

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 22 October 2002, lot 369.
Acquired at the above by the father of the present owner.

Specialist note

Erik Kollin was Fabergé's head workmaster from 1870 to 1886. He specialised in gold and silver articles in the historical style, inspired by both the European Renaissance and Russian medieval pieces. Kollin gained fame for himself and the firm of Fabergé with his skilful replicas of the Scythian gold kept in the Imperial collections at the Hermitage; the designs were awarded a Gold Medal at the All-Russian Industrial Art Exhibition of 1882.

Kollin’s workshop also mounted a variety of hardstone pieces, such as kovshii, charki and bonbonnières, with elegantly burnished or reeded gold.