A Faberge gilded silver and guilloché enamel napkin ring, workmaster Anders Nevalainen, Saint Petersburg, 1899-1908, with original scratched Fabergeinventory number 17287.Of oval section, enameled in transparent mauveover an engine-turned ground, within opaque white borders, the interior of the ring engraved in Cyrillic "to my little bee / 6 VI 1915 Odessa" (моей пчелке), with a Cyrillic monogram beneath a noble crown.Dimensions 1 1/2" h (3.8 cm), 2 1/2" w (6.5 cm)Another napkin ring by Nevalainen in salmon pink enamel with scratched inventory number 18803 was sold as part of the Kazan Collection, Christie's New York, April 15, 1997, lot 101. A comparable but slightly smaller napkin ring by Nevalainen with scratched inventory number 13184 sold at Christie's New York, April 8, 2008, lot 285. For a similar napkin ring with blue enamel in the collection of the State Historical Museum, see V. Skurlov and G. Smorodinova, Fabergeand the Russian Court Jewellers (Moscow, 1992), no. 30 andCarl Fabergé: Kostbarkeiten russischer Goldschmiedekunst der Jahrhundertwende(Museum Bellerive Zürich, 1989), no. 61, p. 88.