A Fabergé silver-gilt and Nephrite match box holder
Workmaster Karl Gustav Armfeldt, St. Petersburg, circa 1900
£7,500
Auction: 23 November 2008 at 15:00 GMT
Description
the circular nephrite stand with silver rim decorated with acanthus leaves, the silver matchbox-holder applied with an eagle within a laurel wreath and supported on the wings of a cast eagle
14cm high
Provenance
Sotheby’s New York, Russian Works of Art and Objects of Vertu, 15th December 1999, lot 226