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The Tsarina's Fabergé Clock,

triangular, gold centred by a white enamel dial, with Arabic chapters and openwork gold hands held
beneath glass in a half pearl set bezel, its corners enamelled translucent fuchsia over a sunburst guillochage and
painted beneath the enamel with dendritic motifs, the edge enamelled with alternating leaves and berries, stood
on two ball feet and supported on a scrolled gold strut.

Chief Workmaster: Michael Evamplevitch Perchin,
St Petersburg,

10. 4cm

Provenance:

Purchased by Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna on
4th December 1901 for 215 roubles.

Exhibited by The Tsarina in the exhibition of Artistic Objects and Miniatures by Fabergé held in March 1902 in the Von
Dervise Mansion on the English Embankment, St. Petersburg. The exhibition was sponsored by the Tsarina and held in
aid of the Imperial Women's Patriotic Society Schools. Members of the Imperial Family, including the Tsar, Tsarina
and Dowager Tsarina lent their personal treasures and it was the first exhibition of Fabergé 's work. The clock was
placed by the Tsarina in its vitrine between a pair of Fabergé frames containing portraits of her husband and her
daughter Grand Duchess Olga, now in the collection of the India Early Minshall Collection of the Cleveland Museum
of Art and in front of a gold mounted Fabergé book given by the Tsar to the Tsarina on the day of their
coronation in May 1896, now in the collection of the Kremlin, Moscow.

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The Von Dervise Mansion, English Embankment St. Petersburg, March 1902, the banner below the vitrine saying the
items it contains belong to Alexandra Feodorovna

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A pair of photograph frames from the collection of Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, containing miniatures of her husband
Tsar Nicholas II and daughter Grand Duchess Olga. In the India Early Minshall Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

 

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Mark of Chief Workmaster Michael Evamplevitch Perchin, St. Petersburg.

Nicholas II   Alexandra Feodorovna