An early Fabergé interior gilt silver tankard - image-1

Lot 756 Dα

An early Fabergé interior gilt silver tankard

Auction 1056 - overview Cologne
13.11.2015, 10:30 - Silver and Miniatures
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
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An early Fabergé interior gilt silver tankard

An early Fabergé interior gilt silver tankard. Marks of August Wilhelm Holmström, St. Petersburg, 1859. H 20.5 cm, weight 436 g.

August Wilhelm Holmström was chief jeweller under Gustav Fabergé as of 1857.

Provenance

According to tradition, the piece was originally part of the inventory of the Jagdschloss Gelbensande and was gived as a present by Grand Duchess Anastasia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin to her illegitimate son Alexis Louis von Wenden (1902 - 76).

Literature

For this maker's mark cf.: Habsburg, Fabergé, Hifjuwelier des Zaren, München 1987, p. 326. For this type cf.: Odom, Russian Silver in America, Surviving the Melting Pot, London 2011, p. 162