A Fabergé Gilt Silver-Mounted Wood Frame with Miniature. Fabergé, Workmaster Anders (Antti) Nevalainen, St. Pete...

Description

A Fabergé Gilt Silver-Mounted Wood Frame with Miniature
Fabergé, Workmaster Anders (Antti) Nevalainen, St. Petersburg, 1899-1908, with scratched inventory Number 15196
3-3/8 x 3 inches (8.6 x 7.6 cm)
44 grams

PROVENANCE:
Olivier Coutau-Begarie, Hotel Drouot, Paris, Art Russe Souvenirs Historiques, May 20, 1911, lot 246;
Private Collection, California.


This beautiful amaranth frame with gilt silver mounts is an exceptional work by Nevalainen in diminutive size. According to recent research, this frame is one of a series of at least five small frames of this type. The offered lot boasts a finely painted enamel miniature of an unidentified young girl.

Heritage Auctions is grateful to Anna and Vincent Palmade for their assistance in the research of this lot.


Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000.

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