Details
Shaped as an egg, enameled throughout in translucent white over a wavy guilloché ground, with laurel-chased and dot-and-dash gold bands all within white champlevé enamel rims, with a cabochon moonstone push-piece at the bottom, with the original green electric cord, marked inside the push-piece mount with workmaster's initials; in the original fitted Fabergé wooden case
2 in. (5.1 cm.) long
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 16 May 1985, lot 445.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 13 June 1990, lot 411.
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The drawing of the present bell-push is featured in a surviving Henrik Wigström’s album of working designs and completed pieces, numbered ‘14656’ (U. Tillander-Godenhielm et al., Golden Years of Fabergé: Drawings and Objects from the Wigström Workshop, Paris, 2000, p. 163, pl. 275).

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