BELL PUSH
Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Workmaster)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
The bell push is shaped like a triangular stand resting on three ball feet. The surface is covered with salmon enamel over imbricated engine turning. Each side is further enriched with ribbon-tied laurel swags suspended from pearls. On the top is a cabochon chalcedony for the bell. In each of the three top corners is a triangle enclosing a spray of leaves.
- Object name:
- BELL PUSH
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- enamel -- pearl -- chalcedony
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1900
- Size:
- 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.144
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARk: twice with Fabergé in Cyrillic; M.P in Cyrillic for workmaster Michael Perkhin [underneath] INSCRIPTION: inventory mark 2949; scratch mark 1740 K j I - I [rim of underside]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973