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Jewelled Gold-Mounted Nephrite Casket by
from Fabergé Collection
by ruzhnikov
Fabergé
workmaster Mikhail Perkhin, St Petersburg, 1899-1903 struck with workmaster’s initials, gold mark of 56 zolotniks, scratched with Fabergé inventory no. 7340 height: 7.5 cm
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Provenance: Wartski, London
Sale: Habsburg, Feldman Geneva, 16 November 1988, lot 79, price realized CHf 88,000
The Kazan Collection
Sale: Christie’s New York, The Kazan Collection of Works of Art by Carl Fabergé, 15 April 1997, lot 116, price realized $211,500.
Literature:
M.Y. Ghosn, Objets de Vertu par Fabergé: La Collection William Kazan, Paris, 1996, illustrated p. 81
A miniature nephrite casket mounted with gold clasp and hinges decorated with translucent red enamel over a guilloché ground and set with rose-cut diamonds; further fitted with suspending gold ring handles set with rose-cut diamonds. Marked inside each hinge and beneath the clasp.