The Imperial Fabergé Chair,

enamelled gold, modelled as a fauteuil en gondole with lyre and arrow supports, after a
design by the Imperial architect Leo von Klenze, the chair demonstrates Fabergé’s mastery of
enamelling, the deep red enamel simulating mahogany is fired over a ground engraved with the
wood’s grain, the seat is enamelled translucent green imitating moiré silk and is embroidered
with a triumphal flaming urn in minutely impressed gold leaf.

Chief Workmaster: Michael Evamplevitch Perchin,
St. Petersburg, 1896-1903,
inventory number: 1920.

Miniature enamelled furniture studies are amongst Fabergé‘s rarest
and most imaginative creations. The chair is made from gold of seventy-
two zolotniks; the highest standard used by Fabergé.

Provenance:

The collection of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna.

Included in the exhibition of the Imperial Family’s Fabergé collection held in the Von Dervis Mansion on the
English Embankment, St. Petersburg in March 1902. The chair is shown in an archival photograph of
the exhibition in the collection of the Hermitage.

Recorded as item 466 in the inventory of the Grand Duchess’ possessions compiled in 1917.

The Ratibor Family, Princes of Ratibor and Corvey

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