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AN IMPRESSIVE VARICOLOUR GOLD AND SILVER-MOUNTED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL FRAME WITH PORTRAIT MINIATURE
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AN IMPRESSIVE VARICOLOUR GOLD AND SILVER-MOUNTED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL FRAME WITH PORTRAIT MINIATURE

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 58800

Closed7 June 2021

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AN IMPRESSIVE VARICOLOUR GOLD AND SILVER-MOUNTED GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL FRAME WITH PORTRAIT MINIATURE
MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 58800
Rectangular, enamelled in oyster white over a wavy guilloché ground, applied with four gold-rimmed cornerpieces enamelled in royal blue over a sunburst guilloché ground, with four gold rosettes at intervals, centring an oval portrait miniature of Edith Rockefeller McCormick signed and dated 'RJ.[19]03', within a beaded bezel, the frame surmounted by a varicolour gold basket with suspended floral swags, with similar swags beneath the miniature, all within a silver outer border cast and chased with ribbon-tied laurel, on two baluster-shaped feet, the ivory back with a silver-gilt strut, marked on lower rim and strut; in the original Fabergé wooden case, also with the original paper label inscribed 'C. Fabergé / N59800 / R.200'
4 ½ in. (11.5 cm.) high

A Princely Liechtenstein collection.
The Kazan collection of Fabergé; Christie's, New York, 15 April 1997, lot 170.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

Edith Rock McCormick (1872-1932) was the third daughter of the business magnate John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), the founder of the Standard Oil Company who is widely regarded as the wealthiest American of all time.

Edith was married to the agriculture entrepreneur Harold Fowler McCormick (1872-1941), Chairman of the International Harvester Company of Chicago. She and her husband were prominent in Chicago society, supporting many causes, including the city’s first opera company.

For their honeymoon the couple travelled to Europe where they might have acquired the frame. Mr McCormick was also one of the American customers of Fabergé in London. Edith McCormick lived in Switzerland between 1913-1921, where she became a disciple of Carl Jung.