Lot 75: A Silver-Gilt and Guilloché Enamel Photograph Frame

A Silver-Gilt and Guilloché Enamel Photograph Frame
Marked K. Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Anders Nevalainen, St. Petersburg, 1896-1908
Rectangular, enameled in translucent pale blue over a wavy guilloché ground, centering a conforming aperture within a beaded border, enclosing a photograph of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, all within a ribbon-tied reeded border, with later silver-gilt back, strut and suspension loop, marked on borders, the back and strut with French hallmarks
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high

New York, A La Vieille Russie, Fabergé: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of The Cooper-Hewitt Museum and The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, April 22-May 21, 1983, No. 64.

Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of The Cooper-Hewitt Museum and The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, New York, A La Vieille Russie, 1983, p. 44, No. 64, illustrated; p. 45.

A La Vieille Russie, New York.
Purchased from the above by the present owner.