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A GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL TWO-COLOR GOLD-MOUNTED MAGNIFYING GLASS

BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST. PETERSBURG, 1904-1908, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 15893

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    A GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL TWO-COLOR GOLD-MOUNTED MAGNIFYING GLASS

    BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST. PETERSBURG, 1904-1908, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 15893

    Price Realised USD 21,420
    Price Realised USD 21,420
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    Circular, with a green gold laurel-chased gold rim, the handle enameled in red over a moiré guilloché ground, with a laurel-chased wreath above and a loop finial, marked on finial with workmaster’s initials
    31⁄8 in. (7.8 cm.) long
    Provenance
    Mrs L.D. Hirst-Broadhead; Sotheby’s, London, 8 December 1969, lot 100.
    The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York.
    Literature
    Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé from The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, 1973, p. 82, no. 32 (illustrated).
    H. Waterfield, C. Forbes, Fabergé Imperial Eggs and Other Fantasies, New York, 1978, p. 90, no. 114 (illustrated).
    A. von Solodkoff, Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, New York, 1984, pp. 45, 177 (illustrated).
    G. von Habsburg, Fabergé in America, New York, 1996, p. 241, no. 240 (illustrated).
    C. Forbes, R. Brenner, Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 174 (illustrated).
    Exhibited
    New York, The New York Cultural Center, Fabergé from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 11 April – 22 May 1973, no. 32.
    San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fabergé in America, May 25 - July 28, 1996, no. 240; also travelled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; New Orleans, Fine Arts Museum; and Cleveland Museum of Art.
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