FABERGÉ EARLY 20TH CENTURY IMPERIAL PRESENTATION GOLD-MOUNTED AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL...
FABERGÉ EARLY 20TH CENTURY IMPERIAL PRESENTATION GOLD-MOUNTED AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL SILVER-GILT DESK CLOCK
Octagonal dial with Arabic numerals and gold hands, opalescent salmon pink guilloché enamel, painted en grisaille with dendritic design, ribbon-tied laurel-chased gold rim, further decorated with an eight-point star similarly guilloché enamelled, within opaque white enamel borders, on an opalescent white guilloché enamel ground, acanthus-chased gold outer border, silver-gilt scroll strut and back-plate (Kokoshnik mark for St Petersburg), with an ivorine back, manual movement, signed Fabergé in Cyrillic, maker’s mark (Henrik Wigström), 1908-1917, scratched inventory numbers 18597 and 25235, original fitted Fabergé wooden case
Size/Dimensions: case 52.9 mm; clock diameter 12.5 cm
Gross weight: 444.5 grams
Provenance
Supplied by Fabergé to the Imperial Cabinet at a cost of 550 roubles under the number 18597.
Discharged by the Imperial Cabinet for the journey of the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928) to England in 1910.
Presented by Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna to Richard Farrer Herschell, 2nd Baron Herschell (1878-1929) in June 1910.
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FABERGÉ EARLY 20TH CENTURY IMPERIAL PRESENTATION GOLD-MOUNTED AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL SILVER-GILT DESK CLOCK
Octagonal dial with Arabic numerals and gold hands, opalescent salmon pink guilloché enamel, painted en grisaille with dendritic design, ribbon-tied laurel-chased gold rim, further decorated with an eight-point star similarly guilloché enamelled, within opaque white enamel borders, on an opalescent white guilloché enamel ground, acanthus-chased gold outer border, silver-gilt scroll strut and back-plate (Kokoshnik mark for St Petersburg), with an ivorine back, manual movement, signed Fabergé in Cyrillic, maker’s mark (Henrik Wigström), 1908-1917, scratched inventory numbers 18597 and 25235, original fitted Fabergé wooden case
Size/Dimensions: case 52.9 mm; clock diameter 12.5 cm
Gross weight: 444.5 grams
Provenance
Supplied by Fabergé to the Imperial Cabinet at a cost of 550 roubles under the number 18597.
Discharged by the Imperial Cabinet for the journey of the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928) to England in 1910.
Presented by Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna to Richard Farrer Herschell, 2nd Baron Herschell (1878-1929) in June 1910.
