Lot 169: A VARICOLOR GOLD AND GUILLOCH ENAMEL FRAME

marked Faberg‚ and with the workmaster's initials of Johan Victor Aarne, St. Petersburg, 1899-1908, with scratched inventory number 3382 Heart-shaped with beaded border, surmounted by a tied ribbon suspending a varicolor gold floral and foliate garland, with similar garland beneath the tied laurel oval bezel, on a translucent pale blue ground, with a silver-gilt scroll strut, marked on rim and strut, in a fitted case stamped 'Wartski' 3 3/8in. (8.5cm.) high PROVENANCE Sotheby's Geneva, 6 May 1981, lot 477 EXHIBITION Munich, Kuntshalle der Hypo Kulturstiftung, Faberg‚: Hofjuwelier der Zaren, December 5 1986-February 22 1987, no. 490, ill. p. 245 New York, Habsburg Feldman, The Josiane Woolf Faberg‚ Collection, November 3-9 1988 Zurich, Bellerive Museum, Faberg‚, Works of Art, May 31-September 3 1989, no. 95, ill. p. 96 St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, Faberg‚: Imperial Jeweller, June 18-August 5 1993, no. 267, ill. p. 368 Paris, Union des Art D‚coratifs, Palais du Louvre, Faberg‚: Imperial Jeweller, September 24 1993-January 2 1994, no. 267, ill. p. 368 London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Faberg‚: Imperial Jeweller, January 26-April 10 1994 Lahti, Lahti Art Museum, Faberg‚: A Private Collection, March 14-May 4 1997, no. 32, ill. p. 26 Delaware, Broughton Museum, Faberg‚, September 9 2000-February 18 2001, no. 702, p. 274, ill.