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A JEWELLED, ENAMEL AND GOLD-MOUNTED PURPURINE PARASOL HANDLE
Lot 23

A JEWELLED, ENAMEL AND GOLD-MOUNTED PURPURINE PARASOL HANDLE

BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 54493

Fermé29 November 2021

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A JEWELLED, ENAMEL AND GOLD-MOUNTED PURPURINE PARASOL HANDLE
BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 54493
The purpurine handle of spherical form, reeded throughout, above a gold-mounted shaft enamelled in opaque white, decorated with a trellis-work of chased gold laurel leaves set with rose-cut diamonds at intervals, marked on rim with workmaster's initials
2 5⁄8 in. (6.8 cm.) high

Purchased by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918) from the St Petersburg branch of Fabergé on 22 November 1896 for 110 roubles.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 4 November 2010, lot 60.

Note du spécialiste

Fabergé made extensive and exclusive use of purpurine, a vivid opaque matt red glass. Purpurine is extremely difficult to make and its production was limited. It is created by crystallising lead chromate in a glass matrix, a technique first discovered in Italy during the seventeenth century. In the nineteenth century Sergei Petukhov, a craftsman at the Imperial Glass Factory, rediscovered the method for creating purpurine. It is thought that Petukhov either supplied the formula to Fabergé or that Fabergé's workmasters mounted pieces of purpurine made at the Imperial Glass Factory.

We are grateful to Dmitry Krivoshey for his assistance with the research of the present lot.