Lot 142: A SILVER-GILT NEPHRITE CLOCK

marked Faberg‚ and with the workmaster's mark of Karl Armfeldt, St. Petersburg, 1908-1917 On a tapering nephrite circular base with a silver-gilt leaf border, surmounted by a cylindrical column within two silver-gilt ribbon-tied laurel-leaf rims, the white enamel dial with black arabic chapter and pierced gold hands within a circular nephrite frame enclosing a silver-gilt dot-and-dash rim and a ribbon-tied laurel bezel, marked on the base 6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) high PROVENANCE A La Vieille Russie, New York, 15 october 1980 LITERATURE von Solodkoff, A. Masterpieces from the House of Faberg‚, New York, 1984, p. 177, ill. pp. 6, 177 Jacobson, S. Only the Best, New York, 1985, p. 50, ill. Kelly, M. "Faberg‚ Table Clocks", Chronos, New York, 1995, p. 66, ill. Forbes, C. & Tromeur-Brenner, R. Faberg‚, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 190, ill. p. 191 EXHIBITION New York/San Francisco/Richmond/New Orleans/Cleveland, Metropolitan Museum of Art, H.M. De Young Memorial Museum, Museum of Fine Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Faberg‚ in America, 1996/97, no. 287, ill. p. 286 NOTES A very similar clock is part of a desk garniture in the collection of Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza and illustrated in Munich, Kuntshalle der Hypokulturstiftung, Faberg‚, p. 170.