25th May, 2016 10:00

European & Asian Works of Art

 
Lot 337
 

337

A FABERGE SILVER-GILT AND ENAMEL BELL PUSH

A FABERGE SILVER-GILT AND ENAMEL BELL PUSH, WORKMASTER AUGUST HOLLMING, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900 compressed spherical, with bluish white guilloché enamelling of basket-weave patterning, the cabochon ruby button surrounded by a beaded border and band of stiff leaves, girdled by a band of ribbon-tied leaves, on five lobe-headed pad feet, workmaster's initials and '88' marks 4.8cm diameter Provenance: Sotheby's, Zurich, 17 May 1979, lot 207

Sold for £2,000


 
A FABERGE SILVER-GILT AND ENAMEL BELL PUSH, WORKMASTER AUGUST HOLLMING, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900 compressed spherical, with bluish white guilloché enamelling of basket-weave patterning, the cabochon ruby button surrounded by a beaded border and band of stiff leaves, girdled by a band of ribbon-tied leaves, on five lobe-headed pad feet, workmaster's initials and '88' marks 4.8cm diameter Provenance: Sotheby's, Zurich, 17 May 1979, lot 207