A FABERGE JEWELLED AND ENAMELLED GOLD-MOUNTED PENCIL HOLDER

Description:

St. Petersburg, 1899-1903
L. 12,7 cm
The handle is enamelled in a translucent salmon pink on a background decorated with a guilloché pattern, featuring an apple-green band within golden borders, with a fluted, tapering tip and a pommel set with moonstone within a golden cap; on the fittings, a kokoshnik mark with ‘Ya.L.’ for Yakov Lyapunov, as well as the maker’s mark of Michael Perchin, 56 zolotink, the Fabergé stamp (blurred), in the original, ca. 26g., fitting Fabergé case (slightly damaged). Enamel minimally damaged.
North German private collection, see Sotheby's Auktion 2. Dezember 2020, Russian Works of Art/Fabergé and Icons, Lot 33
We are grateful to Alexander von Solodkoff for his expert advice