AN IMPRESSIVE AND RARE JEWELLED AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED SILVER IMPERIAL PRESENTATION SNUFF BOX WITH PORCELAIN PORTRAIT PLAQUE MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 4744, AND THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1909 Rectangular with cut corners, the body and hinged cover enamelled in translucent pale blue over a wavy guilloché ground, cover set with a porcelain plaque painted in sepia with a portrait of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna simulating a cameo, all within green gold laurel borders, the outer border also set with rose gold rosettes at corners, with a rose-cut diamond-set thumb-piece, marked inside cover, base and on rim, the plaque marked with green underglaze factory mark on the reverse, dated 1909 ; in a fitted Wartski case 4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) wide
AN IMPRESSIVE AND RARE JEWELLED AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL TWO-COLOUR GOLD-MOUNTED SILVER IMPERIAL PRESENTATION SNUFF BOX WITH PORCELAIN PORTRAIT PLAQUE MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 4744, AND THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1909 Rectangular with cut corners, the body and hinged cover enamelled in translucent pale blue over a wavy guilloché ground, cover set with a porcelain plaque painted in sepia with a portrait of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna simulating a cameo, all within green gold laurel borders, the outer border also set with rose gold rosettes at corners, with a rose-cut diamond-set thumb-piece, marked inside cover, base and on rim, the plaque marked with green underglaze factory mark on the reverse, dated 1909 ; in a fitted Wartski case 4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) wide
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