A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED CUT-GLASS CLARET JUGS
Lot 228 PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED CUT-GLASS CLARET JUGS

MARKED K. FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 4530

Closed26 November 2018

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GBP 112,500

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A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED CUT-GLASS CLARET JUGS
MARKED K. FABERGÉ WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 4530
Of baluster form, each pink glass body cut to clear with diamond pattern and palm leaves, each mount repoussé and chased with rocaille scrolls and pierced with trellis panels, reeded scroll handle, the domed hinged cover with foliate finial, gilt interior, both marked on mount, one further marked inside cover
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high

Probably, Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 25-27 May 1993, lot 296 (one jug).
Property from a Distinguished European Collection; Christie's, London, 1-2 December 2009, lot 57.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

For an earthenware jug with very similar Fabergé silver mounts see G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 96, no. 128.