Jewelled Gold-Mounted Nephrite Casket by

Fabergé

workmaster Mikhail Perkhin, St Petersburg, 1899-1903 struck with workmaster’s initials, gold mark of 56 zolotniks, scratched with Fabergé inventory no. 7340 height: 7.5 cm

Provenance: Wartski, London

Sale: Habsburg, Feldman Geneva, 16 November 1988, lot 79, price realized CHf 88,000

The Kazan Collection

Sale: Christie’s New York, The Kazan Collection of Works of Art by Carl Fabergé, 15 April 1997, lot 116, price realized $211,500.

Literature:

M.Y. Ghosn, Objets de Vertu par Fabergé: La Collection William Kazan, Paris, 1996, illustrated p. 81

A miniature nephrite casket mounted with gold clasp and hinges decorated with translucent red enamel over a guilloché ground and set with rose-cut diamonds; further fitted with suspending gold ring handles set with rose-cut diamonds. Marked inside each hinge and beneath the clasp.