“Love Trophy”

workmaster Mikhail Perkhin, St Petersburg, circa 1890 struck with workmaster’s initials, FABERGÉ in Cyrillic, assay mark of St Petersburg (crossed anchors and sceptre), gold mark of 56 zolotniks, scratched with Fabergé inventory no. 47020 diameter: 4.2 cm

Provenance: Forbes Collection, New York

Exhibitions:

Fabergé: The Forbes Magazine Collection, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 25 June - 18 September 1983, no. 16

Fabergé Fantasies. The Forbes Magazine Collection, Villa Favorita, Lugano, 14 April - 7 June 1987, no. 100

Literature:

Ch. Forbes, H. Waterfield, Fabergé Imperial Eggs and Other Fantasies, New York, 1978, no. 67, illustrated p. 57

A. von Solodkoff, Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, New York, 1984, pl. 74

Ch. Forbes, A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé Fantasies. The Forbes Magazine Collection, Milan/New York, 1987, illustrated p.103

Ch. Forbes, R. Tromeur-Brenner, Fabergé: The Forbes Collection, 1999, illustrated p. 167

A gold bonbonniere of circular form, decorated with alternating panels of blue guilloché enamel and stippled gold applied with diamond-set flowers, the hinged lid and the bottom set with two engraved rock crystal panels engraved with a burning heart pierced with crossed arrows (bottom) and two conjoined laurel branches (top), further enhanced with white opaque borders and a diamond-set push-piece.