Circular, designed as pendant, each side champlevé enameled with vertical black stripes on gold, centering a roundel, enameled in translucent pink over a moiré guilloché ground, one side applied with a rose-cut diamond-set basket of flowers, the other with a diamond-set flower, all within a pink guilloché enamel border, opening to reveal a mirror and a covered powder compartment, with suspension loop, marked inside cover and base with ‘Fabergé’ and workmaster’s initials, also with London import marks for 1912
1¹⁄₂ in. (3.8 cm.) diameter

Purchased by Louis Dorizon (1860-1938) from the London branch of Fabergé on 13 November 1913 for £32.

D. Cooper, Great Private Collections, New York, 1963, p. 246 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Easter Eggs and Other Precious Objects by Carl Fabergé, Washington, 1961, pp. 40-41, no. 35 (listed).
Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: Exhibition for the Benefit of the Scholarship Fund of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 1983, p. 68, no. 165 (illustrated).
U. Tillander-Godenhielm et al., Golden Years of Fabergé: Drawings and Objects from the Wigström Workshop, Paris, 2000, p. 37 (illustrated).

Washington, DC, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Easter Eggs and Other Precious Objects by Carl Fabergé, 1961, no. 35.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1965.
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. 165.
New York, A La Vieille Russie, Golden Years of Fabergé. Drawings of the Wigström Workshop, 12 April - 19 May 2000.

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Louis Dorizon (1860-1938) was a French financier and general manager of Société Générale. He was married to Kazimira Postolska, the sister of Sophie Postolska, a French sculptor and student of Auguste Rodin.