OF WILD STRAWBERRIES BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £325,000
AN iconic, private collection of Fabergé masterpieces from the collection of Harry Woolf takes place live at Christie’s in London on November 29 during the Autumn Russian Art sales season. There are 86 pieces from Mr. Woolf’s extraordinary Fabergé collection personally composed over a period of nearly fifty years from the 1970’s until 2019. They range from jewelled hardstone animals and decorative photograph frames, to pill boxes, scent bottles, silver pieces and jewellery. Harry Woolf is recognised for having collected only the very finest examples and has one of the most exemplary Fabergé collections known to have been curated by any private collector in the last fifty years. The study of wild strawberries pictured here is estimated at £200,000-300,000.
More than ten rare pieces from this prestigious collection (not included in Christie’s sale) are included in the forthcoming Fabergé: From Romance to Revolution exhibition at the V&A in London. This opens on November 20.
UPDATE: THE SALE REALISED £5,203,250, MORE THAN DOUBLE THE PRE-SALE LOW ESTIMATE