Silver Table Lighter Modelled as Samovar by Fabergé

workmaster Julius Rappoport, St Petersburg, circa 1890 struck with workmaster’s initials and maker’s mark Fabergé in Cyrillic beneath Imperial Warrant, silver mark of 88 zolotniks, scratched with Fabergé inventory no. 2413 height: 19.5 cm

Exhibitions:

Fabergé, Rome, Museo Del Corso, 30 October 2003 –18 January 2004

Literature:

G. von Habsburg, Fabergé, Rome, 2003, p. 65

Silver table lighter shaped as a miniature Russian samovar with turned ebony handles. Table lighters shaped as samovars were a speciality of Fabergé. Several smaller examples in gold by Wigström have survived (see Géza von Habsburg and Marina Lopato, Fabergé Imperial Jeweler. A. Abrams, 1993, cat. 163).