Silver and Enamel Square Desk Clock

by Fabergé

workmaster Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1908-1917 struck with workmaster’s initials and Fabergé in Cyrillic, silver marks of 91 and 88 zolotniks height: 6 cm

Provenance:

Sotheby’s Geneva, 14 May 1987, lot 452

Exhibitions:

Fabergé – Juwelier der Zarenhofes Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe,12 April – 25 June 1995, p. 116, cat. no. 100

Literature:

A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé, London, 1988, illustrated p. 99

G. von Habsburg (ed.), Fabergé – Juwelier der Zarenhofes, Hamburg, 1995, no. 100, p. 116

G. von Habsburg (ed.), Fabergé, Imperial Craftsman and his World, London, 2000, no. 516, Illustrated p. 213

Silver square clock, enamelled in translucent oyster white over wavy sunburst engine-turning, with a silver strut, a white enamel dial inscribed with black Arabic numerals and pierced gold hands.

workmaster Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1908-1917 struck with workmaster’s initials and Fabergé in Cyrillic, gold mark of 56 zolotniks, silver marks of 88 and 91 zolotniks height: 8.5 cm

Rectangular silver-gilt desk clock decorated with grey enamel over a wavy guilloché ground; within a chased silvergilt border; the bezel with a seed-pearl rim; the white enamel dial inscribed with black Arabic chapters and gold openwork hands.