Circular Silver Candy Dish by Fabergé

Inspired by the Moscow Kremlin Workshops of the 16th and 17th centuries, the gently lobed interior of the shallow bowl is gilded in rose gold to simulate ancient gilding, its center set with a rare original coin of Tsar Paul 1st (r. 1796-1801). In keeping with the Silver Age taste for Neoclassism, the border is designed as raised laurel leaves. The small dish from the Fabergé workshop is in wonderful, original condition.

Workmaster Karl Gustaf Hjalmar Armfelt, St. Petersburg, 1908-17.

5 in. (12.7) cm. diam.; ½ in. (1.3 cm.) high.

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SKU: 202M

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Karl Gustaf Hjalmar Armfelt (1873-1959)

Armfelt was born in Finland and moved to St. Petersburg to work as jeweler’s apprentice as a teenager. First employed as a journeyman by another Fabergé workmaster, Anders Nevalainen, he then became master, and in 1904, bought Victor Aarne’s Fabergé workshop. Armfelt specialized in gold and silver objects and returned to his homeland in 1920.

Armfeldt may well have based the design of this dish on that of a ceremonial plate made for the wedding of Ivan IV (the terrible) to the Cherkassian Princess Maria Temriukovna.

Literature: See Boris Brodsky, The Art Treasures from Moscow Museums, Moscow, 1980, page 8, fig. 6.

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