A Jewelled Gold-Mounted Guilloché Enamel Cigarette-Case
拍品 39 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A Jewelled Gold-Mounted Guilloché Enamel Cigarette-Case

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 49834

已结束2009年12月2日

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A Jewelled Gold-Mounted Guilloché Enamel Cigarette-Case
Marked Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St Petersburg, circa 1890, scratched inventory number 49834
Rectangular of oval section, enamelled with panels of translucent orange over a wavy guilloché ground, applied with gold bands, with stylized leaf and berry, bright-cut and white enamel borders, with roundels at the corners, centering a seed-pearl within white enamel pellet border, hinged cover with a rose-cut diamond push-piece, marked on flange and inside cover
3½ in. (8.8 cm.) long

Lady Arthur Paget.
By direct descent to the present owner.

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For a similar cigarette case see The Kazan Collection, Christie's, New York, 15 April 1997, lot 106.

Lady Paget (b. 1853), née Mary 'Minnie' Fiske Stevens, was the daughter of a wealthy Boston hotelier. The family, who had moved to New York in the 1860s, entertained Edward, Prince of Wales at their Fifth Avenue hotel when he visited America. Upon her father's death, the family took up residence in England and the Prince of Wales reciprocated their hospitality, entertaining Minnie and her mother at Sandringham and Marlborough House. Following her marriage to Sir Arthur Henry Paget, Minnie became an early patron of Fabergé in London, organising numerous charitable exhibitions which were well attended by her Anglo-American contemporaries.