FABERGÉ SET OF FOUR FIGURAL SILVER-MOUNTED CUT GLASS TAZZA ‘THE FOUR SEASONS’ The House of Fabergé, Supplier to the Court of His Imperial Majesty, Russia, Moscow, 1880-1890

silver, chased, glass, carved, polished Marks: variously marked: ‘88’ silver standard with Moscow coat of arms ‘St George’, firm’s mark in Cyrillic ‘KF’ and ‘Faberge’, two marked ‘1892’ H. 21.6 cm (each) Condition: one tazza with replaced stand, two with chipped glass rims, one glass and the stand are fastened Provenance: Collection of Adolf Rothstein (1858–1904), Russian banker and right-hand man to the Nicholas II’s minister of finance Sergei Witte Thence by descent to the present day, Europe