Details
Of circular form, the purpurine body applied with ribbon-tied laurel swags articulated with seed-pearls, under a laurel chased rim, marked on rim with 'Fabergé' in Cyrillic and workmaster’s initials
214 in. (5.7 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918), purchased from the St. Petersburg branch of Fabergé on 23 December 1895 for 125 roubles.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 17 May 1967, lot 76.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: Exhibition for the Benefit of the Scholarship Fund of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 1983, p. 88, no. 272 (illustrated).
Exhibited
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, 22 April - 21 May 1983, no. 272.
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