Fabergé Silver-Mounted Glass Flacon
Workmaster Anders (Antti) Nevalainen, St. Petersburg, before 1899, scratched inventory number 2018
The diagonally-reeded square glass base fitted with a circular hinged silver cover with ribbon-tied border and bands of radial reeding, centering an enameled 15-kopek coin with the profile of Empress Catherine II on the obverse and dated 1783 on the reverse. Height 3 3/8 inches (8.6 cm).
Provenance:
Princess Eitel Friedrich, née Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg (1879-1964); sold Sotheby's, Geneva, November 15, 1988, lot 592.
Fabergé Silver-Mounted Glass Flacon
Workmaster Anders (Antti) Nevalainen, St. Petersburg, before 1899, scratched inventory number 2018
The diagonally-reeded square glass base fitted with a circular hinged silver cover with ribbon-tied border and bands of radial reeding, centering an enameled 15-kopek coin with the profile of Empress Catherine II on the obverse and dated 1783 on the reverse. Height 3 3/8 inches (8.6 cm).
Provenance:
Princess Eitel Friedrich, née Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg (1879-1964); sold Sotheby's, Geneva, November 15, 1988, lot 592.
Auction: Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings / English & Continental Silver, V, Oct 20, 2022