Provenance
Sale: Sotheby’s Parke Bernet, New York, 16–18 May 1974, lot 264
A la Vieille Russie, New York
Forbes Collection, New York
Literature
Ch. Forbes, Fabergé Fantasies from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1987, no. 50, illustrated p. 69
M.S. Forbes, Fabergé, Orfèvre à la Cour des Tsars, 1987, no. 50, illustrated p. 65
Ch. Forbes, R. Tromeur-Brenner, Fabergé: The Forbes Collection, 1999, illustrated p. 85
Exhibition
Fabergé: The Forbes Magazine Collection, The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 25 June – 18 September 1983, no. 14
Fabergé: The Forbes Magazine Collection, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Fabergé, Baltimore, 22 November 1983 – 15 January 1984, no. 4
Fabergé: The Forbes Magazine Collection, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 27 June – 12 August 1984, no. 17
Fabergé Fantasies from The Forbes Magazine Collection, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano, 14 April – 7 June 1987, no. 50
Fabergé, Orfèvre à la Cour des Tsars, Paris, Museé Jacquemart-André, Fabergé, Orfèvre à la Cour des Tsars, 17 June – 31 August 1987, no. 50
A desk seal modelled as a miniature Imperial Cuirassier Guard helmet in gold and silver with blue guilloché enamel, with applied star insignia and eagle surmount, the white agate seal cut with a prancing horse. Contained in A la Vieille Russie fitted case.
