Lot 217: A Two-Colour Gold-Mounted Guilloché Enamel Carnet-de-Bal

A Two-Colour Gold-Mounted Guilloché Enamel Carnet-de-Bal
By Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1899-1908, inscribed in ink with the inventory number 15563
Rectangular, the front cover applied with a conforming panel enamelled in translucent oyster over a wavy guilloché ground, within chased and engraved foliate mounts, with a holder containing a two-colour gold pencil with cabochon moonstone finial, the reverse with suspension chain, in the original wood case stamped in Russian 'K. Fabergé Moscow St. Petersburg, Odessa' with the Imperial warrant, marked on suspension ring
3 in. (7.4 cm.) high, excluding suspension chain

New York, Fabergé; a Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Design, April 22-May 21, 1983, No. 156.

A La Vieille Russie, Fabergé, a Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Design, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1983, No. 156, p. 67, illustrated.

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.