Silver Imperial Presentation Trophy by

Fabergé

Moscow, 1899-1908 struck with maker’s mark K.FABERGE in Cyrillic beneath Imperial Warrant, assay master’s mark (I.L. for Ivan Lebedkin), silver mark of 84 zolotniks height: 40.5 cm

Provenance:

Sale: Christie’s Geneva, 12 November 1986, lot 150

Exhibitions:

Fabergé in America, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 16 February – 28 April 1996, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 25 May – 28 July 1996, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 24 August – 3 November 1996, New Orleans Museum of Art, 7 December 1996 – 9 February 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art, 12 March – 11 May 1997

Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, Wilmington, Delaware, 9 Sept 2000 – 18 Feb 2001

Literature:

Andre Ruzhnikov Russian Icons, Palo Alto, 1990’s, no. 885, illustrated p. 23

G. von Habsburg (ed.), Fabergé in America, San Francisco, 1996, no. 303, p. 279, illustrated in colour

G. von Habsburg, A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, no. 146, p. 101, illustrated in colour

Silver Imperial presentation cup decorated with a band of laurel leaves, an empty band for an inscription and a wide band of stylized foliate motifs beneath the lip; the cover with gadrooned rim, surmounted by an Imperial crown above two laurel swags.