Provenance:
Private collection, Argentina
Literature:
For the only comparable example from the Wernher
Collection, Luton Hoo, see G. von Habsburg, Fabergé,
Geneva, 1987, no. 255
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- Bloodstone Box by Fabergé, workmaster Michael Perchin, before 1896, British Royal Collection
A hinged rectangular aide-mémoire in Neo-Rococo taste, carved in bloodstone and mounted à cage with chased and engraved two-colour gold rocaille scrolls set with rose-cut diamonds, complete with a gold pencil with a cabochon sapphire finial.
