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A GOLD-MOUNTED AGATE BONBONNIÈRE
AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF FABERGÉ MASTERPIECES AND IMPERIAL TREASURES
A GOLD-MOUNTED AGATE BONBONNIÈRE

BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF ERIK KOLLIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 40385

Price realised GBP 22,500
Estimate
GBP 20,000 – GBP 30,000
Closed: 27 Nov 2017
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A GOLD-MOUNTED AGATE BONBONNIÈRE

BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF ERIK KOLLIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 40385

Price realised GBP 22,500
Closed: 27 Nov 2017
Price realised GBP 22,500
Closed: 27 Nov 2017
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A GOLD-MOUNTED AGATE BONBONNIÈRE
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF ERIK KOLLIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 40385
Of egg form, on a rose gold gadrooned baluster-shaped tapering foot, with a beaded border, the detachable cover with a fan-shaped gadrooned gold handle, marked on mounts, with later Soviet marks
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high, with handle
Provenance
Agathon Fabergé.
Leo Wainstein collection.
With A. Tillander, Helsinki.
Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner in 1979.
Literature
A. Tillander, Fabergé and his Contemporaries, Helsinki, 1980, p. 9, no. 4 (illustrated).
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé, Munich, 1986 – 1987, p. 180, no. 274 (illustrated).
S. Barten, Carl Fabergé: Kostbarkeiten russischer Goldschmiedekunst der Jahrhundertwende, Zurich, 1989, p. 156, no. 194.
U. Tillander-Godenhielm, Smycken: Från Det Kejserliga S:t Petersburg, Helsinki, 1996, p. 130, no. 123 (illustrated).
E. Welander-Berggren, Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Tsar, Stockholm, 1996, p. 132, no. 83 (illustrated).
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 154, no. 298 (illustrated).
M. Saloniemi, U. Tillander-Godenhielm, T. Boettger, The Era of Fabergé, Tampere, 2006, pp. 22, 158, no. 40 (illustrated).
U. Tillander-Godenhielm, Fabergé: ja hänen suomalaiset mestarinsa, Helsinki, 2008, p. 60 (illustrated).
U. Tillander-Godenhielm, Fabergén suomalaiset mestarit, Hämeenlinna, 2011, pp. 54-55 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Helsinki, The Museum of Applied Arts, Fabergé and his Contemporaries, 1980, no. 4.
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé, 5 December 1986 – 8 March 1987, no. 274.
Zurich, Museum Bellerive, Carl Fabergé: Kostbarkeiten russischer Goldschmiedekunst der Jahrhundertwende, 31 May – 3 September 1989, no. 194.
Helsinki, 1988.
Helsinki, 1990.
Helsinki, Museum of Arts and Crafts, 1991.
Helsinki, Smycken: Från Det Kejserliga S:t Petersburg, 1995, no. 123.
Stockholm, Christie’s, 1996.
Washington DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fabergé and Finland: Exquisite Objects, 1996.
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Tsar, 6 June 1996 – 19 October 1997, no. 83.
Lahti, The Lahti Art Museum, Fabergé: Loistavaa kultasepäntaidetta, 14 March – 4 May 1997.
Wilmington, Riverfront Arts Center, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, 8 September 2000 – 18 February 2001, no. 298.
Tampere, Museums in Finland and Moscow Kremlin Museum, The Era of Fabergé, 17 June – 1 October 2006, no. 40.

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