Silver-Gilt and Enamel Square 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, scratched with Fabergé inventory no. 45797 height: 10 cm

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. 314

Literature:

G. von Habsburg (ed.), Fabergé in America, San Francisco, 1996, no. 314, illustrated p. 285

Exceptional silver-gilt square desk clock enamelled in translucent orange over a sunburst guilloche ground, applied with silver-gild ribbon-tied laurel garlands and two arrows, pointed at upper corners; with a silver-gilt rim chased with acanthus leaves and a white enamel dial inscribed with black Arabic numerals.