Details
A JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD AND PURPURINE PENDANT
BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER ALFRED THIELEMANN, ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 81823
In the form of the Monomakh's cap, set with rubies and peridots, suspending three purpurine egg-shaped pendants, set with rose-cut diamonds, marked on loop with workmaster's initials
1 in. (2.5 cm.) high, including loop
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 17 October 1996, lot 55.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé - A Private Collection, Helsinki, 1997, p. 5, no. 4 (illustrated).
K. Farrington, Fabergé, London, 1999, p. 33, no. 10 (illustrated).
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 291, no. 754 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé and the Russian Jewellers, London, 2006, p. 27, no. 31 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Carl Fabergé. A Private Collection, London, 2012, p. 168, no. 142 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Lahti, Lahti Art Museum, Fabergé - A Private Collection, 14 March - 4 May 1997, no. 4.
Wilmington, Riverfront Arts Centre, Fabergé, Imperial Craftsman and his World, 14 August 2000 - 28 February 2001, no. 754.
London, Wartski, Fabergé and the Russian Jewellers, 10 - 20 May 2006, no. 31.
London, Wartski, Carl Fabergé. A Private Collection, 15 - 25 May 2012, no. 142.