A rare and unusual circular silver-gilt desk clock by Fabergé, enamelled in translucent royal blue over a wavy guilloché ground, decorated with garlands of white, red, green and yellow enamel, centring a white enamel dial with black Arabic chapters, pierced hands and a circular seed-pearl bezel, all within a silver-gilt border chased with acanthus leaves, hallmarked on the rim, back and strut.
Fabergé Silver-Gilt and Enamel Desk Clock
Fabergéreference number: FB_008
St Petersburg, 1886-1899
silver-gilt, enamel
diameter: 10.5 cm
maker’s mark: Fabergé in Cyrillic
workmaster’s mark: Cyrillic initials M.P. for Mikhail Perkhin
assay mark of St Petersburg (crossed anchors and sceptre)
silver standard: 88 zolotniks
Fabergé scratched inventory number 50548