A FABERGE GUILLOCHE ENAMEL AND GEM-SET GILT SILVER NECESSAIRE WITH PENCIL, FABERGE WORKMASTER AUGUST HOLLMING, SAINT PETERSBURG, 1899-1913
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PROVENANCE
Sotheby`s New York, 12 June 1996, lot 119
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

LITERATURE
A necessaire from the same series (varying only in the color of enamel and guilloche pattern) is in the Matilda Geddings Gray Collection, illustrated in Geza von Hapsburg, Faberge in America, (San Francisco, Thames and Hudson, 1996), p. 82

EXHIBITED
The Geddings Gray necessaire is presently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Faberge from the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection, November 22, 2011 - November 27, 2016

of rectangular form with rounded edges, the exterior panels with translucent lilac enamel over a wavy guilloche ground, the gilded interior with three hinged compartments, a mammoth ivory-backed mirror, and a hinged money or papers clip with an openwork design, the exterior fitted with a removable pencil mounted with a gem-set end piece, each thumbpiece set with an oval moonstone cabochon, the exterior with a loop for a tassel, length: 10 cm (4 in.), marked Faberge and with the initials of the workmaster AH, 88 standard