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A SILVER-MOUNTED ICON OF ST PANTALEON
Lot 257 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT FRENCH COLLECTION

A SILVER-MOUNTED ICON OF ST PANTALEON

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF KARL (HJALMAR) ARMFELT, ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 21685

Closed4 June 2018

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A SILVER-MOUNTED ICON OF ST PANTALEON
MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF KARL (HJALMAR) ARMFELT, ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 21685
Rectangular, centring the icon of St Pantaleon, holding a medicine box and a spoon, silver mounts cast and chased with scrolling foliage, the wood back with a suspension loop, marked on lower mount; in the original Fabergé silk and velvet-lined wood case stamped ‘Fabergé St Petersburg Moscow London’
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) high

Acquired by Andrei Siniavski (1925-1997).
By descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

St Pantaleon is regarded as one of the Holy Healers and patron saint of doctors. In Russia, St Pantaleon was also considered a patron saint of soldiers. He was born in Nicomedia, located in present-day Turkey, in circa 275. Pantaleon studied medicine with such great success that he was appointed as one of the court physicians to the Emperor Maximian.