Lot 164
FABERGÉ WORKSHOP - A RUSSIAN SILVER, ENAMELLED AND GEM SET PENDANT ICON
MOSCOW, CIRCA 1908-1917
Fine Furniture and Works of Art
Auction: 25 January 2017 at 11:00 GMT
Description
the diamond shaped plain silver frame enclosing a central painted circular icon of Christ Pantocrator, against an elliptical opaque antique blue enamel ground enriched with silver filigree scrolls and set with small red gem panels, against a pale wood ground, with similarly decorated hinged suspension link, marked Fabergé with Imperial warrant, Moscow 1908-17, with scratched inventory number 38837
Dimensions
overall 98mm high, 68mm wide
Footnote
Provenance: Russian Works of Art from the Collection of The Late Jan Bethge Esq.
Note: The inventory number indicates that this pendant icon was one of the objects confiscated from the Moscow store by the CHEKA in 1919. We are grateful to Tatiana Fabergé and Valentin Skurlov for their assistance with the research on the present lot.
It is thought that this icon was most probably the the property of Father Gibbes, tutor of the Tsarevich, and bought (by him/for him) at auction, possibly in the 1920s.