Details
Realistically cast and chased as a seated baboon holding its tail which serves as a lighter, the surface finely chased to simulate fur, his hinged head opening to reveal the lighter fluid compartment with a silver slip-on cover, on a later detachable stone base, marked under the left arm with 'Fabergé' in Cyrillic with the Imperial Warrant and the mark of the First Silver Artel
4 in. (10 cm.) high, excluding base
13.68 oz. (425.6 gr.) excluding base
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 17-18 November 1997, lot 314 (sold with a silver base).
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