A RUSSIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED LACQUER PHOTOGRAPH FRAME

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A RUSSIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED LACQUER PHOTOGRAPH FRAME
SAINT PETERSBURG, 1898-1908, MAKER'S MARK OF FABERGE, WORKMASTER ANDERS NEVALAINEN

The square beaded aperture with ribbon cresting, inset against a red laquer conforming panel with minor chips, the back of black laquer with silver-gilt panel and scroll easel strut and suspension ring, marked on back and strut-5¼in. (13.4cm.) square, containing an original photograph of Grand Duchess Olga flanked by her sons Tikhon and Gury Kulikovsky on a Danish street

來源

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna
Thence by descent

拍品專文

H.I.H. the Grand Duchess Olga (1882-1960) was the daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russian and of his Danish consort Empress Maria Alexandrovna, and the sister of Tsar Nicholas II. After the Revolution, she lived in Denmark until the end of World War II after which she moved to Canada.