Auction 21518:
The Russian Sale
26 Nov 2014 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street
Lot 99*
A silver-gilt and cloisonné enamel cigarette case
Fabergé, Feodor Rückert, 1899-1908
£10,000 - 15,000
RUB 900,000 - 1.4 million
rectangular with rounded corners, enamelled with pink, blue and orange flowers and green and blue vines on cream ground amid varicoloured scrolling geometric borders, enhanced with twisted gilded wire, set with a cabochon push-piece, the gilded interior engraved 'From Mother Natasha/1914/S. Churkin,' 88 standard
width: 9.5cm (3 3/4in).is reproduced by Hill in Fabergé and the Russian Master Goldsmiths, New York, 1989, pl.150.