Cylindrical, the body and detachable cover guilloché enamelled overall with alternating white and salmon pink borders, painted en grisaille with a foliate branch, all within yellow gold laurel-chased bands, the base with a plain carnelian matrix, marked on cover and rims
5⁵⁄₈ in. (14.4 cm.) long

Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928), purchased from the St Petersburg branch of Fabergé on 29 April 1900 for 150 roubles.
Property from the Estate of Alexandra Anastasia, Duchess of Abercorn; Christie's, London, 7 July 2021, lot 101.

K. Snowman, The Art of Carl Fabergé, London, 1962, pl. 168 (illustrated).
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé, Kunsthalle of the Hypo Kulturstiftung, Munich, 1986, pp. 229-230, no. 439 (illustrated).

Munich, Kunsthalle of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé, 5 December 1986 - 8 March 1987, no. 439.

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Alexandra Anastasia Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn was the eldest daughter of Lt.-Col. Harold Phillips and his wife Georgina Wernher. Her maternal grandmother was Countess Anastasia de Torby, otherwise known as Lady Zia Wernher, the daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia and Countess Sophie Merenberg, Countess de Torby.

The Duchess of Abercorn spent much of her childhood in the English countryside, often visiting Luton Hoo, the estate of her grandparents Sir Harold and Lady Zia Wernher and home to the famous Wernher art collection and Fabergé Collection assembled by Lady Zia’s parents.