FRAME WITH A PHOTOGRAPH OF AN UNIDENTIFIED YOUNG LADY
Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Johan Victor Aarne (Workmaster)
Currently in storage
About this object
The inner edge of the frame is in silver beading, outer one in white enamel, between these two the frame is enameled a translucent pale green against a guilloche ground of sunrays. At top is a gold bowknot from which four swags of flowers curve over the frame, two at the top and one at each side. At bottom is a smaller bowknot and two swags of flowers. Bowknots are in red gold, the swags of flowers in green, red and
- Object name:
- FRAME WITH A PHOTOGRAPH OF AN UNIDENTIFIED YOUNG LADY
- Made from:
- Gold -- enamel -- pearls -- ivory
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1899-1908
- Size:
- 3 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. (7.9 × 6.4 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.87
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- MARK: Faberge in Cyrillic, kokoshnik; 56 [Lower edge] MARK: Kokoshnik (assay mark of St. Petersburg 1899-1908); 56; BA (initials of workmaster Johann Viktor Aarne); French import mark ET (1893-1938); assay master Iakov Liapunov [On back]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973