A Fabergé Gold-Inlaid Silver Cigarette Case. Fabergé, Workmaster August Holmström, St. Petersburg, before 1899

Description

A Fabergé Gold-Inlaid Silver Cigarette Case
Fabergé, Workmaster August Holmström, St. Petersburg, before 1899
3-3/4 x 2-1/2 x 0-5/8 inches (9.5 x 6.3 x 1.6 cm)
166 grams (5.33 troy ounces)

PROVENANCE:
Private Collection, California.


This case, with its beautiful crowned cypher in gold recalls a technique used by Fabergé in several other cases, in which varicolored metals are inlaid seamlessly - including a silver inlaid gold case with a crescent moon made for Charles Luzarche d'Azay in 1914 (illus. Tillander-Godenhielm/Schaffer, Golden Years, p. 85).


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

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