Lot 89: A SILVER-GILT GUILLOCH ENAMEL MINIATURE FRAME

marked Faberg‚ and with the workmaster's mark of Johan Victor Aarne, St. Petersburg, 1896-1908, with scratched inventory number 3083 Of rectangular form with cut corners, the pyramidal sloping frame of translucent mauve guilloch‚ enamel enclosing a photograph of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna holding her daughter Grand Duchess Tatiana, within a gold dot and dash border, surmounted by a ribbon crest, with scroll strut, marked on rim and strut 21/4in. (5.7cm.) high PROVENANCE Christie's Geneva, 11 May 1982, lot 248 A La Vieille Russie LITERATURE Forbes, C. & Tromeur-Brenner, R. Faberg‚, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 123, ill. p. 122 von Habsburg, G. Faberg‚ Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, no. 695, p. 273, ill. EXHIBITION New York, A La Vieille Russie, Faberg‚, 1983, no. 75, p. 46, ill. p. 73 Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Faberg‚, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1984, no. 62 Lugano, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Faberg‚ Fantasies from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1987, no, 43, p. 64, ill. p. 65 Paris, Mus‚e Jacquemart-Andr‚, Faberg‚, OrfŠvre … la Cour des Tsars, 1987, no. 43, pp. 43-44 Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Carl Faberg‚: Goldsmith to the Tsar, 1997, no. 113, p. 151, ill. North Carolina, Biltmore Estate, The Glitter and the Gold, 1998, no cat.