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FRAME WITH PORTRAIT OF DINA MERRILL

Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Workmaster)

Currently in storage


About this object

The opening for the photograph is an oval of seed pearls. Outside the oval, the frame is enameled in translucent white engraved engine turned waves. Above the oval and against the enamel is a basket of flowers in tiny diamonds and rubies supported by a bowknot carved in gold and set with a cabochon ruby. Narrow outer edge has leaves carved in green gold against red gold. Malcolm Rae painted the miniature of Dina Merrill Hartley (Nedenia Marjorie Hutton) as a young girl from a photograph (11.68.2).

Object name:
FRAME WITH PORTRAIT OF DINA MERRILL
Made from:
Gold -- enamel -- ivory -- diamonds -- rubies -- pearls
Made in:
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Date made:
1899-1903
Size:
4 5/16 × 2 13/16 in. (11 × 7.1 cm)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
11.68.1
Class:
GOLD
Signature marks:
MARK: kokoshnik facing left (assay mark of St. Petersburg 1896-1908); Ia. L. in Cyrillic (initials of assay master Iakov Liapunov); 56 for gold standard; signed Faberge in Cyrillic; MP in Cyrillic (initials of workmaster Mikhail Perkhin) [on lower edge] INSCRIPTION: scratch mark 8003 [on lower edge] ENGRAVING: Nedenia 1936 [on side]
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973