Details
The pill box, circular, cloisonné enamelled overall with stylised foliage and flowerheads, the higned cover enamelled in translucent lilac over a moiré guilloché ground, marked inside cover and base with maker's mark; the napkin ring, cloisonné enamelled overall with stylised foliage and geometric motifs, engraved with Cyrillic initials 'TV' on the cartouche and a date '7/XI/1916' on the inside rim, marked on body with maker's mark, also with later import marks; the cup, cast and chased with a 'cobblestone' pattern, the base inset with a silver 15 kopeks coin from the period of Catherine II dated 1767, interior gilt, marked on lower rim with 'K. Fabergé' in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial warrant
The cup, 234 in. (7 cm.) high, and smaller
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Lot Essay

For a comparable pill box by Feodor Rückert, see G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 84, no. 95.

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