Each rectangular with rounded corners, enameled overall in mauve, apple green, or light blue over a wavy guilloché ground, with gold laurel-chased rims, one box with a diamond-set thumb-piece, all marked throughout with 'Fabergé' in Cyrillic and workmaster’s initials, three with scratched inventory numbers 17444, 15930, 15744
2 in. (5.1 cm.) long, the largest

The mauve bonbonnière with inventory number '17444': Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (1875-1960), purchased from the St Petersburg branch of Fabergé on 20 July 1910 for 35 roubles.
The apple green bonbonnière with inventory number '15744': John Baring, 2nd Lord Revelstoke (1863-1929), purchased from the London branch of Fabergé on 17 December 1907 for £8.5s.
The larger light blue bonbonnière with inventory number '15930': Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich (1878-1918), purchased from the London branch of Fabergé on 30 December 1908 for £10.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 15 May 1986, lot 415.

Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: Exhibition for the Benefit of the Scholarship Fund of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 1983, p. 62, nos. 129-131 (three illustrated).

New York, A La Vieille Russie, Fabergé: Exhibition for the Benefit of the Scholarship Fund of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, April 22 - May 21, 1983, nos. 129-131.

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