Live Auction 20821A Selection of Fabergé Masterpieces from the Harry Woolf Collection
A GEM-SET AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BELL-PUSH
Lot 22

A GEM-SET AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BELL-PUSH

BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 5720

Closed29 November 2021

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A GEM-SET AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BELL-PUSH
BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 5720
Of stepped rectangular form, the chalcedony base applied with two beaded gold borders, surmounted by a gold panel enamelled in translucent red over a wavy guilloché ground, applied on each side with a carved turtle in agate and amazonite, resting on a gold pivot set with two cabochon moonstones, on four bun feet, marked on mount with 'Fabergé' in Cyrillic and workmaster's initials
4 in. (10.2 cm.) long

Lord Ivar Mountbatten (b. 1963).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 20 October 1997, lot 53.

Specialist note

Lord Ivar Mountbatten is descended from the Russian imperial family through his grandmother, Countess Nadezhda de Torby, Marchioness of Milford Haven. Her father Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich, the grandson of Nicholas I, was married to Countess Sophie Merenberg, Countess de Torby, who was a granddaughter of the famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.