Jewelled Gold and Enamel Cigarette Case by Fabergé

workmaster Mikhail Perkhin, St Petersburg, 1899-1903 struck with workmaster’s initials and Fabergé hallmark, gold mark of 56 zolotniks, scratched with Fabergé inventory no. 55672 length: 9.2 cm

Provenance: Sotheby’s London, 26 November 2008, lot 200

A gold cigarette case of rounded rectangular form, finely enamelled in translucent pale blue over a wavy guilloché ground, applied with twocolour gold bands chased with laurel leaves; set with a diamond thumb-piece; contained in its original holly wood fitted case lined with silk and velvet; the lid satin stamped in Cyrillic ‘Fabergé, St Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa’.