Of tapering square form, each side with alternating yellow and pink gold reeded fields, centering two gold half-roubles from the period of Empress Elizabeth of Russia and two half-roubles from the period of Empress Catherine the Great, each partially enameled in opaque white, marked under base and on body with ‘Fabergé’ in Cyrillic and workmaster’s initials
1³⁄₄ in. (4.5 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 16 November 1983, lot 283.
The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York.

A. von Solodkoff, Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, New York, 1984, p. 165 (illustrated).
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé, Kunsthalle of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, 1986, p. 153, no. 160 (illustrated).
Exhibition Catalogue, Fabergé Fantasies from The Forbes Magazine Collection, Lugano, 1987, p. 47, no. 11 (illustrated).
G. Hill, Fabergé and the Russian Master Goldsmiths, New York, 1989, p. 271, no. 270 (illustrated).
G. Von Habsburg, Fabergé Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 162, no. 320 (illustrated).

Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1984, no. 9.
Munich, Kunsthalle of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé, 5 December 1986 - 8 March 1987, no. 160.
Lugano, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Fabergé Fantasies from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1987, no. 11.
Wilmington, Riverfront Arts Center, Fabergé, Imperial Craftsman and His World, 14 August 2000 - 28 February 2001, no. 320.

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