Details
Square, enamelled in translucent blue over a wavy sunburst guilloché ground and applied with radiating tapering bands, centring a white enamel dial within a silver laurel-chased bezel, black Arabic chapters and pierced gold hands, all within laurel-chased border with rosettes at corners, the ivorine back with silver scroll strut, marked on upper edge and back with 'Fabergé' in Cyrillic and workmaster's initials, also with French import marks; in a fitted Wartski case
438 in. (11.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 12 May 1981, lot 72.
Pasquale Landolfi, Rome.
Literature
A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé, Juwelier des Zarenhofes, Heidelberg, 1995, p. 117, no. 102 (illustrated).
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé, Imperial Craftsman and his World, London, 2000, p. 176, no. 380 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Museums für Kunst und Gewerbe, Fabergé, Juwelier des Zarenhofes, 12 April – 25 June 1995, no. 102.
Wilmington, Riverfront Arts Center, 2000, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, 9 September 2000 - 18 February 2001, no. 380.
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For a similar clock in gold by Michael Perchin, see Sotheby's, New York, 11-12 December 1985, lot 99. For a similarly designed photograph frame from the collection of Princess Radziwill, see Parke-Bernet, New York, 11 December 1952, lot 41.

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