a gold pin topped with a sphere of opaque blue enamel with a frosted surface, punctuated with a repeating pattern of three leaf clover mounted with rosecut diamonds.
St Petersburg, c.1913
Workmaster: Alfred Thielemann
Inventory No.:73632
Length: 17.9cm
Presented in its original holly wood case, the lid satin stamped in gold:
‘Lacloche Frères, 15 Rue de la Paix, Paris [and] 2 New Bond Street.’
Provenance
Fabergé was forced to close all of his premises after the Russian Revolution. His last sale in London was recorded on 9th January, 1917. Shortly after this entry, the shop on Bond Street was closed. The remaining stock was acquired by Lacloche Frères, who relined the holly wood cases with their own lid satin and sold the pieces from their shop at 2 New Bond Street.
Illustrated
Exhibited in ‘Fabergé: Romance to Revolution’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (21st November, 2021 – 8th May, 2022) and is illustrated as No.175, page 200 of the accompanying catalogue (McCarthy and Faurby, 2022).