A four-color gold card-case in Louis XVI style chased with an archway, with, at its center, a monogram with a royal crown above. Applied with four-color gold floral swags suspended from rosettes, all on a yellow-gold sablé ground - signed Fabergé, initials of workmaster August Holmström, assay mark of St. Petersburg before 1899, inventory no. 2140, length 3 3/8 inches

Bibliography: Traina 1998, p. 69

A particularly fine example of a Louis XVI pastiche

 


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