Provenance
Mrs Emanuel Snowman Collection
Bibliography
A.K. Snowman, The Art of Carl Fabergé, Connecticut, 1962, illustrated in colour, pl. XIV
A silver-gilt Fabergé compact of circular form, overall decorated with translucent maroon enamel over a guilloché ground, the hinged cover with a gold rim chased with laurel leaves and acanthus rosette in the centre, the gilt interior fitted with a mirror. Contained in its original silk and velvet-lined fitted wooden case, the lid silk stamped in Cyrillic ‘Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Moscow’ beneath the Imperial warrant.
