A large jewelled silver-gilt, enamel and wood double-photograph frame Fabergé, workmaster Viktor Aarne, St. Petersburg, 1899-1908 rectangular with two vertical apertures; border of translucent emerald-green enamel over the wavy engine-turned ground applied with rococo scrolls and foliate vines set with eighteen large garnet cabochons; the lower centre with vignette centring the date in Cyrillic '10 June 1903'; all mounted in light wood lacquered frame, with elaborate heavy silver-gild strut in rococo taste; 88 standard, marked with standard marks on foliate scrolls, with Fabergé and workmaster's marks on the triangular pelmets on the interior of the frame, and with essayer's mark and workmaster's stamp on the strut, in a later fitted brown leather box lined with white silk and velvet and stamped with Wartski's insignia 33.5 x 36cm (13 1/4 x 14 1/8in) Fußnoten Provenance Sotheby's, Geneva, 16 May 1985, lot 464 Acquired from above by Lily and Edmond J. Safra Sotheby's, New York, 3 November 2005, lot 41 Acquired from above by the present private collector
A large jewelled silver-gilt, enamel and wood double-photograph frame Fabergé, workmaster Viktor Aarne, St. Petersburg, 1899-1908 rectangular with two vertical apertures; border of translucent emerald-green enamel over the wavy engine-turned ground applied with rococo scrolls and foliate vines set with eighteen large garnet cabochons; the lower centre with vignette centring the date in Cyrillic '10 June 1903'; all mounted in light wood lacquered frame, with elaborate heavy silver-gild strut in rococo taste; 88 standard, marked with standard marks on foliate scrolls, with Fabergé and workmaster's marks on the triangular pelmets on the interior of the frame, and with essayer's mark and workmaster's stamp on the strut, in a later fitted brown leather box lined with white silk and velvet and stamped with Wartski's insignia 33.5 x 36cm (13 1/4 x 14 1/8in) Fußnoten Provenance Sotheby's, Geneva, 16 May 1985, lot 464 Acquired from above by Lily and Edmond J. Safra Sotheby's, New York, 3 November 2005, lot 41 Acquired from above by the present private collector
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