LIPSTICK HOLDER
Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Anna Carlovna Ringe (Silversmith)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
The lipstick holder is made in silver, engraved with a guilloche pattern, and almost entirely covered with translucent blue enamel. Two bands of engraved leaves are gilded. The piece came in Hillwood's collection with its original Fabergé box.
- Object name:
- LIPSTICK HOLDER
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- enamel
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1908-1917
- Size:
- 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.185.1-2
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARK Cyrillic AR in Latin script [Inside the cap] MARK 88 for silver content; kokoshnik facing right for 1908-1917, alpha for St. Petersburg [Underneath enamel]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973