Two-Colour Gold and Enamel Opera Glasses by

Fabergé

workmaster Mikhail Perkhin, St Petersburg, 1899-1903 struck with workmaster’s initials, FABERGÉ in Cyrillic, gold mark of 56 zolotniks, height: 6 cm

Gold opera glasses decorated with of translucent pink enamel over a guilloché ground, highlighted with hand-painted dendritic leaf patterns, within yellow and gold borders of chased entrelac and reeding. Only four other examples of Fabergé opera glasses are known. Two of them, formerly in Forbes collection, belongs to the Fabergé Museum in St Petersburg (see G. Hill, Fabergé and the Russian master goldsmiths , no. 254 & 255).

A gold-mounted desk compass in the form of a Roman tripod supported by three winged terms each set with a ruby, the bezel decorated with a band of translucent royal blue guilloché enamel.