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Gold-Mounted Nephrite Ladle
from Fabergé Collection
by ruzhnikov
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by Fabergé
workmaster Mikhail Perkhin, St Petersburg, 1899-1903 struck with workmaster’s initials, FABERGÉ in Cyrillic, assay master’s initials (Ya.L. in Cyrillic for Yakov Lyapunov), gold mark of 56 zolotniks length: 16.7 cm
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Fabergé’s son Agathon
Literature:
A.K. Snowman, Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia, London, 1979, p. 31
A nephrite ladle with a circular bowl and a long rectangular handle mounted with chased and granulated gold, the reverse of the handle inscribed in Old Church Slavonic ‘Ye B M 1712’; contained in its original silk and velvet lined fitted holly wood box, the lid silk stamped ‘Fabergé, St Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa’ beneath Imperial warrant.
