Details
Of compressed spherical form, the body enameled in translucent red over a wavy guilloché ground, with a two-color gold laurel-chased rim, the removable brush with a fluted finial set with a cabochon chalcedony, marked on rim and on brush fitting with workmaster's initials; in an associated red leather case
134 in. (4.4 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Valuable and Important Objet de Vertu by Carl Fabergé from the Lansdell K. Christie Collection; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 7 December 1967, lot 22.
Literature
Jessie McNab Dennis, 'Fabergé's Objects of Fantasy', Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, March, 1965, frontispiece (illus.).
Exhibited
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Mr. and Mrs. Lansdell K. Christie Collection of Fabergé, 1962.
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