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Auction archive: Lot number 55

AN ENGRAVED, JEWELLED GOLD IMPERIAL COMMEMORATIVE CIGARETTE-CASE

Auction 01.12.1995
1 Dec 1995
Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$57,500
Auction archive: Lot number 55

AN ENGRAVED, JEWELLED GOLD IMPERIAL COMMEMORATIVE CIGARETTE-CASE

Auction 01.12.1995
1 Dec 1995
Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$57,500
Beschreibung:

AN ENGRAVED, JEWELLED GOLD IMPERIAL COMMEMORATIVE CIGARETTE-CASE MARKED FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER AUGUST HOLMSTRÖM, ST. PETERSBURG, CA. 1890 The rectangular case engraved overall with griffons, sphinxes, nike figures, wreaths, and other neo-Empire motifs, the front centering a rose-cut diamond-set XXV , the back with the crowned rose-cut diamond-set cypher of the Admiral Grand Duke Aleksei Aleksandrovitch, with a diamond-set thumbpiece, the interior engraved with the inscription Wladimir, Marie, Alexis, Serge. Elisabeth, Paul; 11/23 January 1899 . The grey woven tindercord with tassel at one end, the other attached to a gold suspension ring, and a gold foliate and diamond-set miniature egg pendant, set with a small cabochon sapphire, the egg marked Fabergé, St. Petersburg, ca. 1890, the maker's mark indistinct 4½in (11cm.) wide

Auction archive: Lot number 55
Auction:
Datum:
1 Dec 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

AN ENGRAVED, JEWELLED GOLD IMPERIAL COMMEMORATIVE CIGARETTE-CASE MARKED FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER AUGUST HOLMSTRÖM, ST. PETERSBURG, CA. 1890 The rectangular case engraved overall with griffons, sphinxes, nike figures, wreaths, and other neo-Empire motifs, the front centering a rose-cut diamond-set XXV , the back with the crowned rose-cut diamond-set cypher of the Admiral Grand Duke Aleksei Aleksandrovitch, with a diamond-set thumbpiece, the interior engraved with the inscription Wladimir, Marie, Alexis, Serge. Elisabeth, Paul; 11/23 January 1899 . The grey woven tindercord with tassel at one end, the other attached to a gold suspension ring, and a gold foliate and diamond-set miniature egg pendant, set with a small cabochon sapphire, the egg marked Fabergé, St. Petersburg, ca. 1890, the maker's mark indistinct 4½in (11cm.) wide

Auction archive: Lot number 55
Auction:
Datum:
1 Dec 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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