A FABERGE SILVER TABLE LIGHTER FORMED AS A SEATED ELEPHANT, MOSCOW, 1895 the table lighter formed as a seated elephant, the trunk curving downwards, with finely chased details imitating the texture of wrinkled skin, the hinged head opening to reveal the lighter fluid compartment with screw top with the outlet for the taper, marked with 88 standard, date and assayer's mark A.S in Cyrillic for Aleksandr Vladislavovich Skovronsky, Moscow town mark, K. Faberge mark in Cyrillic with Imperial warrant, French swan export mark, Soviet reassay marks; height: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.), weight: 346.9 g (11.150 ozt) PROVENANCEBonhams, London, June 7, 2017, lot 109Private American collection
