Provenance
Sale: Sotheby’s London, 26 November 2008, lot 200
A Fabergé gold cigarette case of rounded rectangular form, finely enamelled in translucent pale blue over a wavy guilloché ground, applied with two-colour gold bands chased with laurel leaves; set with a diamond thumb-piece; contained in its original holly wood fitted case lined with silk and velvet, the lid satin stamped in Cyrillic ‘Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa’ beneath the Imperial warrant.
