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Minaudière

House of Carl Fabergé
Workmaster: August Frederick Hollming

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 555

One side of the interior of this rare minaudière is a mirror with an ivory backing that hides a compartment for cigarettes. An adjoining compartment holds a moonstone-capped gold pencil. On the leaf opposite the cigarette compartment, the case is divided into two sections: the larger, fitted with a marabou puff, is for face powder, and the smaller is for rouge. This minaudière was regularly used by Matilda Geddings Gray.

[Wolfram Koeppe, 2011]

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