AN IMPRESSIVE JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL DESK CLOCK
Lot 239

AN IMPRESSIVE JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL DESK CLOCK

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 9421

Closed3 June 2019

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GBP 150,000

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AN IMPRESSIVE JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL DESK CLOCK
MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 9421
Of shaped oval form, enamelled in translucent lime green over a sunburst guilloché ground, with circular seed-pearl bezel and within a seed-pearl border, applied with a gold laurel wreath, tied with ruby-set and diamond-set ribbons, on a two-colour gold acanthus-chased base, the white enamel dial with black Arabic chapter and pierced hands, the ivorine back with silver scroll strut, the back-plate with hand-set, marked on lower rim, back and strut; in a fitted Wartski case
5 ¼ in. (13.2 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 11 May 1982, lot 333.
With A La Vieille Russie, New York.

Specialist note

For a comparable clock of a similar shape with grey enamel, see K. Snowman, Carl Fabergé, Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia, New York, 1983, p. 19.