Jewelled Gold-Mounted Silver-Gilt and Enamel Cigarette Case by Fabergé

workmaster Mikhail Perkhin, St Petersburg, 1899-1903 workmaster’s initials and Fabergé hallmark, gold mark of 56 zolotniks, silver mark of 88 zolotniks, scratched Fabergé inventory no. 3564 length: 8.2 cm

Provenance: The Harcourt Collection workmaster Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1908-1917 workmaster’s initials and Fabergé hallmark, gold mark of 72 zolotniks length: 9.8 cm

A Rococo revival rectangular oval section silver-gilt cigarette case, overall enamelled in yellow over a patterned weave guilloché ground; overlaid with gold rocaille scroll and floral cagework; set with a cabochon ruby and diamondset thumb-piece.

Provenance:

Mrs Alice Keppel (1869-1947)

Mrs Sonia Cubitt, daughter of Mrs Keppel Christie’s Geneva, 11 May 1989 (Objets de Vitrine from the Collection of Mrs. George Keppel) Private collection

Exhibitions:

Carl Fabergé, Goldsmith to the Tsars, Stockholm, National Museum, 6 June 1997 – 19 October 1997, no. 102

Literature:

Carl Fabergé, Goldsmith to the Tsars, Stockholm, p. 145, no. 102 (illustrated)