FABERGE - ANTIQUE RUSSIAN SILVER LAPIS LAZULI PERFUME BOTTLE, H.WIGSTROM
Russian Lapis Lazuli and gilt silver perfume bottle with a stopper. A neck is adorned with a gilt silver relief ornament. The stopper features is a white gemstone. The second half of the 19th-century. Nice Faberge item. When you touch and hold a piece of FABERGE sterling you are in contact with something very special coming down to you not only from the era of the czars but of an ancestry far more ancient: for it is typical of all the imperial courts there have ever been.
HALLMARKS: '88' silver standard next to a female head in a kokoshnik and the initials 'H.W.' for Henrik Emanuel Wigstrom (1862-1922) who was a department head workmaster for the workshop of Karl Faberge in the years 1903-1918 - please see information below.
CONDITION: Very good with minor scratches to gilding. The item is described to the best of our knowledge. Please refer to pictures and email with any questions.
PROVENANCE: From an Upstate New York Home.
DIMENSIONS: 2 5/8 inches (6.6 cm) tall. Weight: 117 grams.
ESTIMATE PRICE: $4,000 - $15,000.
HISTORY of SALES: A few years ago, Russian perfume bottles, made by different FABERGE workmasters, were sold on Live Auctioneers and Christie's for $15,000 (5 years ago), $16,088 (2 years ago), $20,000 (3 years ago) and $22,100 (9 years ago)- please see the screenshots.
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WORKMASTER: Henrik Immanuel Wigstrom (1862-1923) was one of the most important Faberge workmasters along with Michael Perchin. Perchin was the head workmaster from 1886 until his death in 1903, when he was succeeded by his chief assistant Henrik Wigstrom. These two workmasters were responsible for almost all the imperial Easter eggs. Erik August Kollin, a Finn, was head work master from 1870 to 1886 and produced gold jewellery, including pieces in the Scythian style (the Scythian treasure had just been discovered at Kerch in the Crimea). Wigstrom became head workmaster at Faberge after Perchin's death in 1903. The number of craftsmen in Wigstrom's workshop diminished drastically with the outbreak of World War I. By 1918, the Revolution forced the complete closing of the House of Faberge. Aged 56, Wigstrom retreated almost empty-handed to his summer house, on Finnish territory, and died there in 1923. His art is similar to Perchin's but tends to be in the Louis XVI, Empire, or neo-classical style.

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