Lot 72: A FABERGÉ DIAMOND-SET CARVED BOWENITE AND GOLD PARASOL HANDLE, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1895

A FABERGÉ DIAMOND-SET CARVED BOWENITE AND GOLD PARASOL HANDLE, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1895 the baluster-shaped bowenite handle ribbed, with six of the alternating ribs fit with bands set with rose-cut diamonds meeting at the top, which is surmounted by a larger, old European cut diamond, the gold collar set with a band of diamonds, the later gold fluted spreading base with six round-cut diamonds, the matrix uncut marked with workmaster's initials and 56 standard; the later seal-form gold base bearing pseudo-marks of A. Fabergé in Cyrillic and the Latin initials AH height 3 1/4 in. 8.3 cm

Christie's, New York, June 15, 1982, lot 154.

The elegant combination of bowenite with bands of rose-cut diamonds converging on a larger stone recalls the design of the Diamond Trellis Egg made in the workshop of August Holmström, a gift from Emperor Alexander III to Empress Maria Fedorovna in 1892. See Tatiana Fabergé, et al, The Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs, London, 2000, pp. 109-111.