Lot 93: A Silver-Mounted Overlaid and Etched Glass Vase

A Silver-Mounted Overlaid and Etched Glass Vase
The silver base marked Fabergé with the Imperial warrant, St. Petersburg, 1896-1908, the glass by the Imperial Glass Factory, period of Nicholas II, 1900
The circular base formed as a branch with five leaf feet and further leaves entwined around the blue and white frosted glass body, overlaid and engraved with green leaves and a red flower bud, marked on silver base and under base of glass
10¾ in. (27.4 cm.) high

David Perlman
By direct descent to the present owner.

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

David Perlman (1882-1987) was born in Musch, Russia. He left the Russian army in 1905 for Sweden, from where he moved to the United States of America in 1907. The family returned to Scandinavia in 1908.
For an overlay glass vase with similar mounts, with glass by Gallé and leaf-form mounts marked Fabergé with the workmaster's mark of Julius Rappoport, St. Petersburg, before 1899, see G. von Habsburg, Fabergé Imperial Craftsman and his World, London, 2000, p. 117, No. 178, illustrated. This latter vase once stood in the office of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna in the Winter Palace, and was later transferred to the Hermitage.