Details
Octagonal, the body enamelled with a salmon pink eight-pointed star over a sunburst guilloché ground, on a steel blue guilloché enamelled ground, within white opaque enamel borders, centring a white enamel dial with Arabic chapters and gold hands within a seed-pearl bezel, all within two-colour gold laurel-chased mounts, the ivorine back with a silver scroll strut, the back-plate with hand-set, marked on rim, back and strut with ‘Fabergé’ in Cyrillic and workmaster’s initials
41⁄8 in. (10.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich (1861-1929) and Countess Sophie of Merenberg, Countess de Torby (1868-1927).
By descent to Lady Zia Wernher (1892-1977).
By descent in the family.
Literature
H. C. Bainbridge, Peter Carl Fabergé, London, 1949, pl. 32 (illustrated).
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