Gold-Mounted Nephrite Stamp Box Modelled as a Table 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, scratched with Fabergé inventory no. 5853 height: 6 cm length: 9 cm

Literature:

G. von Habsburg-Lothringen, A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé: Court Jeweller to the Tsars, London, 1979, p. 52

A stamp box shaped as a Louis XVI style writing desk, the sides of the box enamelled in translucent red over a guilloché ground simulating wood, applied with red gold swags and rosettes, a gold foliate rim and acanthus scrolls at the corners, the box rests on four fluted urn-shaped and tapered legs; the box is covered with a cut-cornered rectangular hinged nephrite panel mounted with a chased red gold border. Items of miniature furniture from the House of Carl Fabergé are very rare, most produced by the chief workmaster Mikhail Perkhin or Henrik Wigström.