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Fabergé
Works
of Art

Fabergé Works of Art

 The
Clock
Collection
 Gold, Silver-Gilt
and Enamel
Square Desk
Clock by Fabergé
workmaster Mikhail Perchin, St Petersburg, circa 1890
struck with workmaster’s initials and Fabergé in Cyrillic,
gold mark of 56 zolotniks

height: 10.2 cm

Provenance:
The Forbes Collection

Exhibitions:
Fabergé Fantasies. The Forbes Magazine Collection,
Villa Favorita, Lugano, 14 April - 7 June 1987
Fabergé, Orfèvre à la Cour des Tsars, Musée
Jacquemart-André, Paris, 17 June - 31 August 1987
Fabergé, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich,
5 December 1986 - 8 March 1987

Literature:
G. von Habsburg (ed.), Fabergé Fantasies. The Forbes
Magazine Collection, Milan/New York, 1987
G. von Habsburg (ed.), Fabergé, Munich, 1986, p. 253,
no. 509 (illustrated)
Fabergé. Forbes Collection, 1999, pp 132-133 (illustrated)

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A gold-mounted gem-set square desk
clock, decorated with translucent
white and red enamel over a sunburst
guilloché ground, applied with four-
coloured gold ties, ribbons, rosettes
and set with a seed-pearl bezel and
eight cabochon emeralds; centred
by an opaque white enamel dial with
Arabic numerals; contained in the
original fitted case. The red and white
colours of this clock indicate a royal
Danish provenance.

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 Gold, Silver-Gilt
and Enamel
Square Desk
Clock by Fabergé
workmaster Mikhail Perchin, St Petersburg, 1899-1903
struck with workmaster’s initials and Fabergé in Cyrillic,
gold mark of 56 zolotniks and silver mark of 84 zolotniks,
scratched with Fabergé inventory no. 7579

height: 10.5 cm

Provenance:
Mrs H.T. de Vere Clifton

Literature:
H.C. Bainbridge, Peter Carl Fabergé, His Life and Work, pl. 34

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 Gold and silver-gilt square
clock, decorated with
translucent pale pink enamel
over a guilloché ground, with
four oyster sepia leaf-like
panels with entwining white
opaque and translucent green
borders, applied with four
chased, gold rowels and husks,
border of chased yellow gold
anthemion, backed with plain,
scroll strut, with original back.

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 Gold, Silver-Gilt workmaster Mikhail Perchin, St Petersburg,
circa 1899-1903, struck with workmaster’s initials
and Fabergé in Cyrillic, silver mark of 88 zolotniks

and Enamel diameter: 9.5 cm

Provenance:

Circular By repute, owned by Grand Duke Alexis

Desk Clock
by Fabergé

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 Circular silver-gilt clock decorated with
alternating lilac and white guilloché
enamel panels, centred by an opaque
white enamel dial with Arabic numerals
and openwork gold hands; contained
in original fitted box with original key.

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 Silver-Gilt and Enamel
Circular Desk Clock
by Fabergé
workmaster Mikhail Perchin, St Petersburg, 1899-1903
struck with workmaster’s initials and Fabergé in Cyrillic,
silver mark of 88 zolotniks, scratched with Fabergé
inventory no. 55482

diameter: 11 cm

Provenance:
Purchased from Fabergé by Her Imperial Majesty
Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. In Fabergé’s ledgers,
described as being in the Louis XVI style, with green
and opalescent enamel. It was acquired by Her
Imperial Majesty Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna
on 3 July 1902 for 240 roubles. The Tsarina gave
it to her eldest sister Princess Victoria of Battenberg,
later Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford
Haven, born Princess Victoria of Hesse. Thence by
family descent.

Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna

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Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine

Silver-gilt circular clock decorated with

radiating panels of translucent green
and white enamel, centred
by an enamelled dial with Arabic
numerals and openwork gold hands held
beneath glass within a pearl bezel, the
edge encircled by chased gold laurel
leaves, supported on a scrolled strut.
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 Silver-Gilt and Enamel
Desk Clock
by Fabergé
circa 1905
silver-gilt, enamel
diameter: 10.5 cm
struck with workmaster’s initials
and Fabergé in Cyrillic
assay mark of St. Petersburg
silver standard: 88 zolotniks
Fabergé scratched inventory number 50548

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A rare and unusual circular silver-gilt
desk clock by Fabergé, enamelled
in translucent royal blue over a wavy
guilloché ground, decorated with
garlands of white, red, green and yellow
enamel, centring a white enamel dial
with black Arabic numerals, pierced
hands and a circular seed-pearl bezel,
all within a silver-gilt border chased
with acanthus leaves, hallmarked
on the rim, back and strut.

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 Gold, Silver-Gilt and
Enamel Desk Clock
by Fabergé
workmaster Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1908-1917
struck with workmaster’s initials and Fabergé in Cyrillic,
London import mark of 1913, gold mark of 56 zolotniks
and silver mark of 88 zolotniks, scratched with Fabergé
inventory no. 3?0949

height: 11.7 cm

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Rectangular gold and silver-gilt strut desk clock with ivory
backing; enamelled in translucent red over sunburst guilloché
background; border with acanthus frieze; surmounted by
ribbon cresting and decorated with four-colour gold floral
festoons; the projecting corners applied with gold rosettes.
The circular dial with pale pink translucent enamel over
sunburst guilloché background with burgundy red Roman
numerals and entwining laurel; the centre of the dial
inscribed Fabergé in cursive; ribbon-tied bezel with opaque
white enamel.
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 Silver-Gilt and Enamel
Circular Desk Clock
by Fabergé

workmaster Mikhail
Perchin, St Petersburg,
circa 1899-1903
struck with workmaster’s
initials and Fabergé
in Cyrillic, silver mark
of 88 zolotniks, scratched
with Fabergé inventory
no. 1949

diameter: 10.2 cm

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 Desk clock by Fabergé,
workmaster Henrik Wigström, 1896-1908
British Royal Collection

Silver-gilt circular clock, enamelled chartreuse over

wavy sun-ray guilloché ground applied with overlaid
olive branches surrounding a white enamel dial
with black Arabic numerals and pierced gold hands,
set within gadrooned gold bezel; the ivory back with
hinged scroll strut.

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 Silver-Gilt
and Enamel
Circular
Desk Clock
by Fabergé
workmaster Mikhail Perchin,
St Petersburg, circa 1905
struck with workmaster’s initials
and Fabergé in Cyrillic,
silver mark of 88 zolotniks

diameter: 10.5 cm

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 Circular silver-gilt clock decorated with
raspberry enamel over a wavy guilloché
ground applied with a continuous
pattern of intertwining acanthus leaves,
centred by an opaque white enamel dial
with Arabic numerals and openwork
gold hands.

Christie’s, London,
6 June 2011, lot 107
(price realised £109,250)

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 Gold, Silver-Gilt
and Enamel
Circular Desk
Clock by Fabergé
workmaster Mikhail Perchin,
St Petersburg, circa 1890
struck with workmaster’s initials and
Fabergé in Cyrillic, silver mark of 88 zolotniks,
scratched with Fabergé inventory no. 7579

diameter: 10.7 cm

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 Gold and silver-gilt circular clock,
the surface decorated with lilac
guilloché enamel applied with radiating
bands of red gold, the border chased
with green gold acanthus leaves;
centred by an opaque white enamel dial
with Arabic numerals and openwork
gold hands, the bezel set with pearls.

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 Silver-Gilt
and Enamel
Triangular Desk
Clock by Fabergé
workmaster Mikhail Perchin,
St Petersburg, circa 1895
struck with workmaster’s initials and
Fabergé in Cyrillic, silver mark of 88 zolotniks

height: 13 cm

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 Silver-gilt and enamel triangular
clock decorated with gold and white
geometric shaped panels over
a sunburst guilloché ground, centred
by an opaque white enamel dial with
Arabic numerals and openwork gold
hands; contained in the original holly
wood fitted box.

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 Gold, Silver-Gilt
and Enamel Desk
Clock by Fabergé
workmaster Henrik Wigström, St Petersburg, 1903
struck with workmaster’s initials and Fabergé
hallmark, gold mark of 56 zolotniks,
scratched with Fabergé inventory no. 10475

height: 11.9 cm

Provenance:
Presented on behalf of Tsar Nicholas II to Alphonse
Bertillon, 4 August 1908, and thence by descent.

Literature:
Vie d’Alphonse Bertillon, Paris, [141?], p. 184.

Alphonse Bertillon, (April 23, 1853, Paris — Feb. 13, 1914), chief of criminal
identification for the Paris police who developed an identification system known
as anthropometry, or the Bertillon system.

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 Gold clock of lozenge shape resting on its point, centred
by a circular opaque dial with Arabic numerals and openwork
gold hands held in a pearl-set bezel, decorated with
translucent oyster enamel over a sunburst guilloché ground,
mounted with green gold laurel swags bound with red gold
ties and fixed with chased red gold bows, the border chased
with a band of green gold laurel leaves and red gold floret
at each corner, supported on a scrolled silver-gilt strut, with
original ivory back, contained in the original silk and velvet
lined fitted holly wood case, the lid stamped ‘Fabergé,
St Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa’ beneath Imperial warrant.
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 Gold, Silver-Gilt,
Rock Crystal and
Trefoil-Shaped Desk
Clock by Fabergé
workmaster Mikhail Perchin,
St Petersburg, circa 1890
struck with workmaster’s initials and
Fabergé in Cyrillic, gold mark of 56 zolotniks
and silver mark of 88 zolotniks,
with Fabergé inventory no. 3228

height: 11 cm

Provenance:
The Forbes Collection

Literature:
Fabergé. Forbes Collection, 1999, p. 125 (illustrated)

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 Desk clock by Fabergé,
workmaster Mikhail Perchin, 1896 - 1900
British Royal Collection

Rare and unusual trefoil-shaped Fabergé crystal clock. The

crystal panel is centred with a circular silver-gilt and white
enamelled dial with Arabic numerals, set with a bezel
of green enamelled laurel with diamonds and backed with
a scroll gold strut. Attached to the dial are three smaller
ribbon-tied laurel wreaths mounted with red cabochons and
diamonds.
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 Jewelled Gold,
Silver-Gilt and
Enamel Semi-
circular Desk
Clock by Fabergé
workmaster Mikhail Perchin,
St Petersburg, circa 1895
struck with workmaster’s initials and
Fabergé in Cyrillic, gold mark of 56 zolotniks
and silver mark of 84 zolotniks,
scratched with Fabergé inventory no. 51996

width: 17 cm

Provenance:
His Excellency Sayed Mohamed Mahdi Al-Tajir

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 Christie’s, London,
25 November 2019, lot 253
(price realised £118,750)

Semi-circular clock overall enamelled in translucent yellow

over a sunburst guilloché ground, centred with a white
enamel dial with black Arabic numerals set with a seed-
pearl bezel and overlapping pierced diamond trelliswork
lower border, the outer rim is chased with gold laurel wreath
highlighted with rose-cut diamond-set flower heads, further
enhanced with vari-coloured flower garlands and festoons,
surmounted by a laurel tied ribbon bow and quiver, back with
a scroll strut.

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 Silver-Gilt
and Enamel
Star-Shaped Desk
Clock by Fabergé
workmaster Mikhail Perchin,
St Petersburg, circa 1890
struck with workmaster’s initials and
Fabergé in Cyrillic, silver mark of 88 zolotniks

height: 12 cm

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 Silver-gilt and red guilloché enamel
desk clock shaped as a six-pointed star;
centred by an opaque white enamel
dial with Arabic numerals and openwork
gold hands; contained in original
fitted case.

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 Silver-Gilt and Enamel
Star-Shaped Desk Clock
by Fabergé
workmaster Victor Aarne, St Petersburg, 1899-1903
struck with workmaster’s initials and Fabergé in Cyrillic,
silver mark of 88 zolotniks, scratched with Fabergé
inventory no.14526

height: 14 cm

Silver-gilt desk clock formed as a six-

pointed star, the surface enamelled
in translucent canary yellow over
sunburst engine-turning, with an opaque
white enamel dial with Arabic numerals
and openwork gold hands set within
a seed-pearl bezel.

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 Gold, Jewelled
and Enamel Pendant
Watch by Fabergé
workmaster Alfred Thielemann, St Petersburg, 1904-1908
struck with workmaster’s initials and Fabergé hallmark,
gold mark of 56 zolotniks

height: 4.7 cm

Suspending spherical watch set

with diamonds and overall decorated
with green guilloché enamel, the
bar decorated with a diamond-set
basket of flowers; contained
in the original box.
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Andre Ruzhnikov

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Credits

Photography: Andy Johnson

Сonsultant: Katya Yakushkina
Design: Maria Kiseleva
Printed: Screaming Colour Limited