Lot 99: A jewelled silver-gilt mounted nephrite cup

by Fabergé and with the workmaster's mark of Feodor Afanasiev, St. Petersburg, 1908-1917, with scratched inventory number 23104
The hemispherical nephrite bowl on raised circular foot and cylindrical stem applied with wirework enclosing the bowl a cage with rosette intersections, the slightly flared rim and foot set with twelve cabochon sapphires, the rim with engraving, marked on foot, in original fitted wood box, the interior cover stamped in Russian 'Fabergé St. Petersburg Moscow, London' with the Imperial warrant
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high

M.Y. Ghosn, Objets de Vertu par Fabergé, Paris, 1996, no.65.

Sotheby's New York, 9 May 1975 lot 262
Christie's New York, The Kazan Collection, 15 April 1997, lot 56

The Russian inscription reads: '1888 11 Sept. 1913.'

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