Of bombé form, cloisonné enameled overall with foliate motifs and geometric design on black ground, with a similarly enameled angular handle, engraved on the inner rim with an inscription in Swedish ‘In warm memory / of Russian friends / I. Stein & P. Reidel. / Petrograd, 26/9 September 1914.', marked under base with ‘K. Fabergé’ in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial warrant, probably overstriking the mark of Feodor Rückert
12¹⁄₄ in. (31.1 cm.) long, over handle

Property of a Swiss collector; Christie’s, Dusseldorf, 21 March 1972, lot 442.

Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: Exhibition for the Benefit of the Scholarship Fund of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 1983, p. 41, no. 52 (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, no. 52.

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