A large Imperial guilloché enamelled desk clock and calendar
by Carl Fabergé,

of rectangular upright form, enamelled translucent opalescent oyster white over
a guillochage, centred to the top by a circular pearl set bezel, containing beneath
glass an opaque white enamel dial with Arabic chapters and openwork gold
hands, the apertures for the calendar rolls enamelled in French with the months,
days of the week and date flanking a flaming silver torch entwined by laurels,
surmounted by a laurel wreath tied with a bow and mounted to the sides and fronts
with further silver floral motifs.

Workmaster: Johann Victor Aarne,
St. Petersburg, pre 1896,
Inventory number: 58893.

24 cm by 9.3cm by 5.3cm

In its original silk and blue velvet lined fitted oak case, the lid satin bearing
the stamp in Cyrillic `K. Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow'.

Purchased by the Dowager Tsarina Maria Feodorvona from Fabergé's St. Petersburg
shop on 9th March 1898 for 600 roubles.