An two colour enamelled gold frame
by Carl Fabergé,

the circular aperture within a pearl set bezel, flanked by
a stylised laurel enamelled vivid green over a naturalistic
guillochage, supported on two similarly enamelled
orange leaves centred by a drop set with fourteen
rose diamonds, with sealed gold back
and scrolled gold strut.

Moscow, 1896-1908,
inventory number: 16790.

3.9 cm across

Provenance:

Purchased from Fabergé by the Dowager Tsarina Marie
Feodorovna. Purchased by Wartski from the Antikvariat,
the soviet Commissariat established by Lenin in 1921 to sell
confiscated Russian works of art to raise currency for
industrialisation programs on 1st February 1932
for £14 and sold to an English private collector.

A photograph taken at Wartski's Regent Street shop in
the early 1930s showing the frame amongst a group of pieces
purchased from the Antikvariat. The packing case used to
transport them from Russia visible in the background.