A Fabergé Gem-Set Nephrite-Mounted Gold and Silver Parasol Handle. Attributed to Fabergé, apparently unmarked, l...

Description

A Fabergé Gem-Set Nephrite-Mounted Gold and Silver Parasol Handle
Attributed to Fabergé, apparently unmarked, likely St. Petersburg, circa 1910
3 x 1-1/8 inches (7.6 x 2.9 cm)
59 grams



This parasol handle, with its exceptional exhibition of channel-set diamonds flush within a carved nephrite base show a technique which was a particular specialty of the Faberge workrooms. A nephrite parasol handle with channel set diamond bow by Wigström from the collection of Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg was sold Sotheby's Geneva, May10-12, 1988, lot 131. Another, robustly carved nephrite handle from the Michael Perkhin workrooms is in the Lillian Thomas Pratt collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (No. 47.20.178).


Estimate: $20,000 - $40,000.

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