Fabergé Friday

It's Friday again! Good thing this day comes every week. Otherwise there would be less Fabergé posts... For this week I have chosen a pretty bonbonnière, made around 1896 - 1908!

The box has a rounded cushion shape, and is enameled translucent royal blue over a moire guilloché ground on the sides, and a sunburst guilloché pattern on the top. In the middle of the lid sits a cabochon ruby, surrounded by four golden leaves.

Around the edge of the lid runs a border of chased yellow gold laurel leaves, and the thumbpiece is set with five graduating rose-cut diamonds. The interior of the bonbonnière is guilt. You can find it over at Wartski.

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Fabergé Friday

This Friday's Fabergé object is a marvelous little bonbonnière in the shape of a sea shell, created around 1890!

The bonbonnière is carved from smokey topaz. The hinged gold lid is enameled opaque dark blue, and decorated with gold foliate scrolls. Around the lid's edge runs a border of rose-cut diamonds, and the thumbpiece is a cabochon ruby, flanked by two rose diamonds.

The box is 2.8 inches (7.2 centimeters), and has been modeled on 18th century gold mounted shell boxes, that Fabergé probably saw during his studies and visits to the Hermitage.

Chief workmaster during the creation of this lovely little thing was Mikhail Perkhin, and, besides myself, I think I have quite a few readers who wouldn't mind being the owner of it...