Live Auction 20821A Selection of Fabergé Masterpieces from the Harry Woolf Collection
A GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE FRAME WITH PORTRAIT MINIATURE
Lot 46

A GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE FRAME WITH PORTRAIT MINIATURE

BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1905

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A GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE FRAME WITH PORTRAIT MINIATURE
BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1905
Rectangular, the nephrite frame centring a portrait miniature of Princess Olga Konstantinovna Orlova by Vasilii Zuev, signed and dated 'V. Zuev. 1905', within a laurel-chased mount, set with rosettes at corners, with an ivory back and scroll strut, marked on strut with 'Fabergé' in Cyrillic and workmaster's initials
5 3⁄8 in. (13.6 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 7 May 1982, lot 95.

Specialist note

During her lifetime, Princess Olga Konstantinovna Orlova (1872-1923) was known as the most elegant and best-dressed woman in St Petersburg. Alexander Benois wrote that she had great style and was the favoured model of Russian artists. The most famous portrait of Princess Olga Orlova was painted by Valentin Serov in 1911 (State Russian Museum, St Petersburg).

From a noble Russian family, Olga was the eldest child of Prince Constantine Belosselsky-Belozersky and Nadezhda Skobeleva. She married Prince Vladimir Nikolaevich Orlov (1868-1927) in 1894 and emigrated to France in 1919, following the Revolution.