Silver-Gilt and Enamel Circular Desk Clock

by Fabergé

workmaster Mikhail Perkhin, St Petersburg, circa 1895 struck with workmaster’s initials and Fabergé in Cyrillic, silver mark of 88 zolotniks diameter: 11.3 cm

Provenance:

Sale: Christie’s Geneva, 11 May 1982

Exhibitions:

Fabergé in America, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 16 February – 28 April 1996, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 25 May – 28 July 1996, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 24 August – 3 November 1996, New Orleans Museum of Art, 7 December 1996 – 9 February 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art, 12 March – 11 May 1997, no. 321

Literature:

Fabergé in America, San Francisco, 1996,

Silver-gilt circular clock, decorated with a slightly rising dark blue sunburst guilloché enamel crescent moon on a white sunburst guilloché enamel ground, and an asymmetrically set white enamel dial with black Arabic chapters, gold hands and a seed pearl bezel.