Jewelled Gold-Mounted Agate Scent Flacon

by Fabergé

workmaster Mikhail Perkhin, St Petersburg, circa 1890 struck with workmaster’s initials, assay mark of St Petersburg (crossed anchors and sceptre), gold mark of 56 zolotniks, scratched with Fabergé inventory no. 17613 height: 7 cm

Provenance: Wartski, London

A scent flacon carved from brown agate and mounted with matt and polished gold scrolls in Neo-Rococo taste, the hinged lid topped by a cabochon blue sapphire with gold curb link suspension chains; contained in the original silk and velvet lined fitted wooden case, the lid silk stamped in Cyrillic ‘Fabergé, St Petersburg, Moscow’ beneath Imperial warrant.