ANTIQUE 20thC RUSSIAN FABERGE SOLID SILVER-GILT & NEPHRITE BOWL c.1900

DESCRIPTION

Antique early-20th Century Russian Faberge gold mounted nephrite bowl, circular bulbous body, applied with a chased laurel border. Hallmarked Russian gold 56 (585 standard), St-Petersburg, year 1899-1903, Makers mark of Michael Perchin, with scratched inventory number 3929. Michael Perkhin (in Russian: Михаил Перкин) was, along with his successor Henrik Wingstrom (1862 - 1923), the most creative and talented head workmaster of the House of Fabergé.

Perkhin began his career working as a journeyman for Erik Kollin, at that time Fabergé’s head workmaster. In 1884 he was already master craftsman and two years later he succeeded Kollin as head workmaster. Under his direction the most popular Fabergé themes were introduced: eggs, animals, flowers, objects of vertu in hard stones and precious metals. About half of the Imperial Easter Eggs bear his initials.

Under his supervision, the firm produced its most innovative objects of vertu, making a distinctive use of gold, enamel and hard stones to create elegant and innovative masterpieces, in a wide range of styles from Rococo to Renaissance revival. Nowadays his artworks are in the most important international museums and more than a hundred items bearing his initial are today part of the Royal Collection.

Literature: Exhibition catalogue Count down to the Millennium, Fabergé, London, Tessier, n. 57 G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, n. 356, p. 218 listed and illustrated.

Exhibition: London, Tessier, Count down to the Millennium, Fabergé, 12-20 November 1999 Wilmington, Riverfront Arts Center, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, 8 September 2000 – 18 February 2001.

Provenance: Comes from the Collection of Sir Charles Clore

CONDITION

In Great Condition - No Damage.

SIZE

Height: 3cm
Width: 4.5cm