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A jewelled gold-mounted enamel and moss agate pill box Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, 1899-1908, scratch inventory number 10845 image 1
A jewelled gold-mounted enamel and moss agate pill box Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, 1899-1908, scratch inventory number 10845 image 2
A jewelled gold-mounted enamel and moss agate pill box Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, 1899-1908, scratch inventory number 10845 image 3
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A jewelled gold-mounted enamel and moss agate pill box
Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, 1899-1908, scratch inventory number 10845

4 June 2014, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £122,500 inc. premium

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A jewelled gold-mounted enamel and moss agate pill box

Fabergé, Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, 1899-1908, scratch inventory number 10845
shaped polygonal, the hinged lid set with polished moss agate plaque within enamel foliate border, the sides in sections with each engine-turned green over guilloché wavy ground applied with ribbon-tied laurel swags suspended from rubies alternating with pendant husks, the base translucent green over wavy engine-turning; in fitted Wartski case, 72 standard
5 x 3cm (1 15/16 x 1 3/16in).

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Provenance
Purchased by Princess Hatzfeldt (1862-1928) at Fabergé, London, 1910
Wartski
Purchased from the above by private collectors
Thence by descent

The inventory number corresponds to an entry in the London Fabergé ledgers for a gold bonbonniere with moss agate purchased by Princess Hatzfeldt on November 16, 1910 for £53. Our thanks to Tatiana Fabergé for providing this research.

Princess Hatzfeldt (1862-1928) was born Clara Prentice in California and adopted into the family of railroad tycoon Collis P. Huntington (1820-1900). She married Prince Francis von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg in 1889 and having inherited a considerable fortune, acquired over 50 pieces of Fabergé between 1907 and 1916. The Princess established herself in English society and became a frequent dinner guest of Edward VII.

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