Lot Details
Lot 174
Important Fabergé Two-Color Gold Mounted and Enameled Sandalwood Photograph Frame
Workmaster August Hollming, St. Petersburg, before 1899
Rectangular, centering a circular aperture with gold and white opaque champlevé enameled striped bezel between two trapezoidal panels enameled in translucent pink over an engine-turned sunburst ground, flanked by two gold caducei, with wood back and easel strut, applied with a silver dedication plaque engraved: To / Adelaide Iveagh / from / H.R.H. George Prince of Wales / Nov. 6. 1909.; in a Noble & Co., London, fitted box. Height 4 1/8 inches (10.5 cm.), width 5 3/8 inches (13.7 cm.).
Provenance:
Presented to Adelaide Maria Guinness (1844-1916), Viscountess Iveagh, by the Prince of Wales, the future King George V of the United Kingdom (1865-1936).
Collection of the Earl of Iveagh, Elveden Hall, Suffolk, England.
Eldred's, East Dennis, Massachusetts, August 10, 1989, lot 149.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, November 19, 1991, lot 355.
Literature:
W. Lowes & C. McCanless, Fabergé Eggs: A Retrospective Encyclopedia (2001), p. 225.
Adelaide Guinness (1844-1916), descended from the banking line of Guinness family, was married to her third cousin, Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, (1847-1927), a prominent Irish businessman and philanthropist who was descended from the brewing line of the Guinness family. In 1885, Guinness was created a baronet, and in 1891 he was raised to the peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Iveagh. In 1905, Lord Iveagh was raised to a viscounty and in 1919 he was advanced to an earldom, becoming Earl of Iveagh and Viscount Elveden. He was the head of the Guinness brewing business and a noted philanthropist and art collector. The couple were distinguished members of Edwardian society and friends with the royal family. The Prince of Wales was known to visit Elveden Hall, their residence in Suffolk.
Noble and Company, located in London, was led by Arthur Bowe, who had opened Fabergé's London branch and whose brother Allan had managed Fabergé's Moscow and Odessa branches. Noble and Company retailed works by Fabergé from 1906-1917, while Fabergé was still in production, and continued after Fabergé had ceased operations.
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