A Fabergé Violet Guilloché and White Opaque Enameled Gold Frame. Fabergé, Moscow, before 1899, and with scratched inventor...

Description

A Fabergé Violet Guilloché and White Opaque Enameled Gold Frame
Fabergé, Moscow, before 1899, and with scratched inventory number 13738
4-1/8 x 3 x 0-3/8 inches (10.5 x 7.6 x 1.0 cm)
92 grams

PROVENANCE:
Frederick Glyn, 4th Baron Wolverton (1864-1932);
The Hon. Marion Feodorovna Glyn, his daughter;
George Frederick Lawrence Hyde Villiers, 7th Earl of Clarendon, her son;
Thence by descent;
Sotheby's London, Russian Works of Art Fabergé and Icons, December 1, 2010, lot 493;
Fabergé Heritage Collection, Inv. No. 52.

EXHIBITED:
Fabergé at Harrods, April 1-21, 2014, cat. 72.

ILLUSTRATED:
Habsburg, G., ed., Fabergé at Harrods, Harrods, London: 2014, p. 37, cat. no. 72.


Frederick Glyn, 4th Baron Wolverton (24 September 1864 - 3 October 1932), was a British banker and Conservative politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household under Arthur Balfour from 1902 to 1905, and was a known client of Fabergé. This frame subsequently passed to his grandson, the 7th Earl of Clarendon, and the miniature appears to depict George Herbert Hyde Villiers, the 6th Earl.



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