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Lot 211 AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF FABERGÉ MASTERPIECES AND IMPERIAL TREASURES
A JEWELLED GOLD AND SILVER LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY BROOCH
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF OSCAR PIHL, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890
Closed27 November 2017
Price Realised
GBP 15,000
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Specialist note
A comparable brooch was sold Christie’s, Geneva, 19 November 1991, lot 346. An original Fabergé design for this brooch was sold Christie’s, London, 5 April 1960, lot 173, see A. von Solodkoff, et al., Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, New York, 1984, p. 21.
As a symbol of spring's arrival, the lily-of-the-valley was a favourite flower of the Empresses. A Fabergé enamelled brooch, set with a similar diamond sprig of the flower, was given by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna to Marion Louisa 'Pollie' Delmé-Radcliffe, Baroness Ungern-Sternberg in June 1898 (Christie's, London, 29 November 2010, lot 220)
As a symbol of spring's arrival, the lily-of-the-valley was a favourite flower of the Empresses. A Fabergé enamelled brooch, set with a similar diamond sprig of the flower, was given by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna to Marion Louisa 'Pollie' Delmé-Radcliffe, Baroness Ungern-Sternberg in June 1898 (Christie's, London, 29 November 2010, lot 220)