Day 3: Fine Art & Decorative Works
Sat, Jul 18, 2015 09:00AM EDT - Sun, Jul 19, 2015 09:00AM EDT
Live Auction
Lot 683
Fabergé or Fabergé Style Gold-Mounted
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $25 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
Agate Scent Bottle Russian or German, finely crafted and formed as a miniature handled urn, the highly polished honey-colored agate body banded top and bottom with gold palmettes, tied gold laurel swags on front and back, pinned by rose-cut diamonds, frame blackened silver Romanov Imperial double-headed eagles, enriched by rose-cut diamonds, looped handles at sides, supporting rose-cut diamond crescents, anchored by quatrefoil rose-cut diamonds, dome of white guilloche enamel in wave pattern rises from the body and is surmounted by a rose-cut diamond collar, stopper/finial is a gold acanthus cup holding an egg, set with rose-cut diamonds, champagne diamonds used throughout and carefully graded in size, stopper and applied decoration with marks for Alfred Thielemann, Fabergé, 14 kt. Gold, 2-15/16 in., wooden case, bottle rests upon fitted bed of cream-colored velvet, white silk lining displays the Russian Imperial warrant and is inscribed in Cyrillic Faberge: St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa; research file accompanies this item light wear to base, tiny marks on dauber from testing for gold content, some wear to lining of wooden case, condition otherwise very good. Notes: Signed in Cyrillic: Faberge and AT, initials of workmaster Alfred Thielemann (worked for Fabergé from 1880 and died in 1909), gold assay mark of 56 zolotniks and the initials in Cyrillic of YaL for Yakov Ljapunov, director of the St. Petersburg assay district, August 1898-March 1904. Complete with wooden case, bottle rests upon a fitted bed of cream-colored velvet, white silk lining displays the Russian Imperial warrant and is inscribed in Cyrillic: Fabergè: St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa. Because the complete record of previous owners cannot be determined, attribution of this piece to Fabergé cannot be made. Fabergé-related marks on the piece, then, should be regarded as spurious.. Provenance: Creech Collection, North Carolina
Condition
light wear to base, tiny marks on dauber from testing for gold content, some wear to lining of wooden case, condition otherwise very good
