Daria Khristova nee Chernenko
Department Director
Lot 122*
A silver-gilt and enamel beaker Fabergé, workmaster Antti Nevalainen, St. Petersburg, 1898-1908, with scratched inventory number '15823'
1 December 2021, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £4,000
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Jacqueline Senior
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A silver-gilt and enamel beaker
Fabergé, workmaster Antti Nevalainen, St. Petersburg, 1898-1908, with scratched inventory number '15823'
of cylindrical tapering form, enamelled translucent chartreuse-green over a wavy guilloché ground, with moulded lip, 88 standard
height: 5cm (2in).
of cylindrical tapering form, enamelled translucent chartreuse-green over a wavy guilloché ground, with moulded lip, 88 standard
height: 5cm (2in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Acquired by a young American collector, David D. Daly of St. Paul, Minnesota from the Hammer Galleries, New York, on 25 August 1937. He began collecting Fabergé as a young man, became a personal friend of Viktor Hammer and frequently visited the Hammer Galleries in New York. The present lot is sold with original paperwork from the Hammer Galleries which stipulates that the present beaker is traced to the apartments of Grand Duchess Anastasia in the Alexander Palace at the Tsarskoe Selo
Thence by descent
Exhibited
New York, 51 East 57th Street, Hammer Galleries, loan exhibition of Peter Carl Fabergé, Imperial Court Jeweler (1846-1920), 28 March - 28 April, extended until 12 May 1951
Literature
Peter Carl Fabergé, Imperial Court Jeweler (1846-1920), 28 March - 28 April 1951, exhibition catalogue, listed on p. 25, no. 151. Family correspondence with Victor J. Hammer confirms that the beaker was included in the exhibition above.