MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK CYRILLIC 'AP' POSSIBLY FOR ALEXANDER PETROV, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1904, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 12799

Name: A GEM-SET AND ENAMEL SILVER-GILT ICON OF A GUARDIAN ANGEL
Brand: MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK CYRILLIC 'AP' POSSIBLY FOR ALEXANDER PETROV, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1904, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 12799
Price: 32000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 40,000

Estimate

GBP 15,000 - GBP 20,000

Closed: 21 Jul 2020

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A GEM-SET AND ENAMEL SILVER-GILT ICON OF A GUARDIAN ANGEL

MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK CYRILLIC 'AP' POSSIBLY FOR ALEXANDER PETROV, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1904, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 12799

Price Realised GBP 40,000

Closed: 21 Jul 2020

Price Realised GBP 40,000

Closed: 21 Jul 2020

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Rectangular, centring the icon of a guardian angel, silver mounts enamelled in white, decorated with wirework scrolls, set with sapphires, garnets and emeralds at intervals, the wooden back with suspension loop, marked on lower mount; in the original Fabergé wooden case
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high

Acquired from Fabergé by the great-grandparents of the present owner prior to 1914.

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Lot Essay

The great-great-grandfather of the present lot owned the jewellery shop L. Guériat in St Petersburg at 14 Morskaya street, next to Fabergé, and struck up a friendship with Carl Fabergé during the early 1900s. The present lot was either a gift from Carl Fabergé or purchased from the firm. The great-grandfather of the present lot left Russia and his jewellery business at the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and joined the French army.