16th Nov, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST

Fine Jewellery, Watches & Silver

 
 
 

A Russian Silver and Guilloché Enamel Pill-Box
by Fabergé, St. Petersburg, 1908-1917, With Scratched Inventory Number 18714

oblong, the sides and hinged cover enamelled in dark green enamel on a rayed guilloché ground, with laurel chased border, the thumbpiece set with five mine-cut diamonds
52mm wide, gross weight 1oz 8dwt, 43.4gr

The box seems to be belong to a series of similar boxes, each with very similar foliage border and diamond-set thumbpiece. These include three circular examples, one enamelled in red (Sotheby's, London, 6 June 2017, lot 328) and another in blue-grey (Sotheby's, 30 May 2012) and one in pale green (Christie's, New York, 24 April 2009, lot 219). They are each engraved with scratched inventory number 21681, 20553 and 21881 respectively. Each of these examples was marked with the 88 zolotnik mark and the Cyrillic ФА maker's mark

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£2,500 - £3,500
 

Buyer's premium: 24.00%

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Auction: Fine Jewellery, Watches & Silver, 16th Nov, 2024

Fine Jewellery, Watches and Silver Sales are held three times a year, coinciding with the Fine Sales. They offer the top tier of consignments, focussing on important diamonds, fine period and designer jewellery, the most desirable vintage and modern luxury watches by top makers and fine pieces of period silver.

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