Lot 212: A Jewelled Two-Colour Gold-Mounted Guilloché Enamel Cigarette Case

A Jewelled Two-Colour Gold-Mounted Guilloché Enamel Cigarette Case
Marked Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1908-1917, scratched inventory number 21849
Rectangular of oval section, with laurel-chased green gold mounts to the ends and set with a band of seed-pearls around the spring-hinged cover, enamelled in translucent pink over a wavy guilloché ground, with cabochon moonstone push-piece, marked inside cover, mounts and base
3¼ in. (8.5 cm.) high

Henrik Wigström's design book includes a drawing for a nearly identical pink enamelled cigarette case with scratched inventory number 12371 and dated 9 June 1911. See U. Tillander-Godenhielm, et al, Golden Years of Fabergé: Drawings and Objects from the Wigström Workshop, Paris, 2000, p. 54, pl. 129.