A GOLD-MOUNTED CORNELIAN BONBONNIÈRE  BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF ERIK KOLLIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 40385 (or 40585) Of egg form, on a gold gadrooned and fluted tapering foot, the detachable cover with a fan-shaped gadrooned gold finial, marked on mounts, with later Soviet marks   Provenance: Agathon Faberge. Leo Wainstein collection. With A. Tillander, Helsinki. Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner in 1979.

A GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GOLD-MOUNTED SILVER-GILT BONBONNIÈRE  BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF FEODOR AFANASSIEV, ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 21339   Provenance: With A.B.S. Magaliff, Stockholm. Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner in 1979.

A JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD IMPERIAL PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 1514   Provenance: With Wartski, London. Anonymous sale; Christie’s, Geneva, 12 May 1980, lot 268. Acquired at the above by the father of the present owner.

A VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT MINIATURE MODEL OF A SEDAN CHAIR MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, 1899–1903, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 2707   Provenance Purchased from Fabergé shop in St Petersburg by Dutch born rubber industry magnate Othmar Neuscheller. Anonymous sale; Christie’s, Geneva, 26 April 1978, lot 382. With Wartski, London, 1981. Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner in 1981.

A GEM-SET GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GOLD IMPERIAL PRESENTATION CIGARETTE CASE MARK OF ALEXANDER TILLANDER, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1893 The cover inscribed in Russian ‘From Papa / 25 Dec. 1983 / Gatchina’   Provenance: A gift from Emperor Alexander III to his son Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, future Emperor Nicholas II, on Christmas Day 1893. With Wartski, London. Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner in 1981.

AN IMPERIAL JEWELLED, GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GOLD AND SILVER SNUFF BOX WITH PORCELAIN PORTRAIT PLAQUE MARKED FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1909, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 4744   Provenance: Collection of the Hon. Mr and Mrs W.H. Watson-Armstrong. With Wartski, London. Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 18 July 1988, lot 313. Acquired at the above by the father of the present owner.

A GOLD-MOUNTED AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL PHOTOGRAPH FRAME MARK OF ALEXANDER TILLANDER, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890   Provenance: The Property of a Member of a European Royal Family; Christie’s, London, 17 December 1982, lot 81. Mrs Josiane Woolf. Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 6 October 1988, lot 204. Acquired at the above by the father of the present owner.

A GOLD-MOUNTED DIAMOND AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL BROOCH MARK OF ALEXANDER TILLANDER, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1909-1910 Of lozenge shape, centring rose-cut diamond-set initials 'MA' for Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna   Provenance: A gift from Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna (1853-1920), Duchess of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, to her maid. With Max Howald, Bern. Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner in 1995.

AN IMPORTANT PLATINUM-TOPPED GOLD-MOUNTED DIAMOND AND ROCK CRYSTAL ‘SNOWFLAKE’ BROOCH BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER ALBERT HOLMSTRӦM, DESIGNED BY ALMA PIHL, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1913 A stylised six-pointed snowflake decorated with rose-cut diamonds, centring a brilliant-cut diamond, all set on a circular rock crystal panel, all within a rose-cut diamond-set border, gold pin, marked on pin; in the original Fabergé wood case stamped ‘A Snowflake from Russia 1913’ on cover and ‘Fabergé St Petersburg Moscow London’ inside cover   Provenance: Gift from Emanuel Nobel to a wife of one of his business associates. Anonymous sale; Hagelstam, 3 December 2000, lot 320. Acquired at the above by the father of the present owner.

AN IMPERIAL SILVER RHINOCEROS AUTOMATON BY FABERGÉ, WORKMASTER POSSIBLY JULIUS RAPPOPORT, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1905 with the original silver winding key, marked under base; in the original silk and velvet-lined wood case stamped 'Fabergé St Petersburg Moscow London' beneath the Imperial warrant 2⅞ in. (7.3 cm.) wide   Provenance: Probably the rhinoceros, purchased from the London branch of Fabergé by Lord Chamberlain, Lord Howe (1861-1929) on 3 November 1909 for £60, entered into ledgers under inventory number 17665. Probably given to Queen Alexandra (1844-1925) for her sixty-fifth birthday in 1909 by Lord Howe. Probably a gift from Queen Alexandra to her sister Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928) during one of her visits to England. A gift to Prince Vasili Alexandrovich (1907-1989) from his grandmother Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna circa 1914-1915. Acquired by the father of the present owner from the descendants of Prince Vasili Alexandrovich in 2003.

AN IMPORTANT IMPERIAL GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL AND TWO-COLOUR GOLD CIGARETTE CASE BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890 the inside cover engraved in facsimile handwriting of the Empress Maria Feodorovna ’Gatchina / 28 October / 1890’, marked inside cover and base; in the original chamois slip case 4¾ in. (12 cm.) wide     Provenance: Probably jointly purchased from the St Petersburg branch of Fabergé by Empress Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928) and Emperor Alexander III (1845-1894) on 28 July 1890 for 725 roubles.   A wedding gift to Emperor Alexander III from his wife Empress Maria Feodorovna in October 1890. Given to Prince Vasili Alexandrovich (1907-1989) by his mother Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (1875-1960) in 1959. Acquired from the descendants of the above by the father of the present owner in 2003.

A GEM-SET GUILLOCHÉ AND EN PLEIN ENAMEL GOLD-MOUNTED SILVER-GILT PARASOL HANDLE BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER’S MARK OF FEODOR AFANASSIEV, ST PETERSBURG, 1908-1917, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 27576 OR 20956   Provenance: De Lacelle family. With A. Tillander, Helsinki. Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner in 1983.