A serpentine parasol-handle shaped as a frog

BY FABERGÉ, CIRCA 1900

Details

A serpentine parasol-handle shaped as a frog
by Fabergé, circa 1900
Realistically carved, with silver-mounted diamond eyes, the frog crouched over a later agate stand engraved under the speading base 'KF'
4½in. (11.5cm.) high

Exhibited

San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Russian Imperial Court, (1964), no.17
New York, Metropolitan Museum, Fabergé in America, (1996), no.27 illustrated.

Lot Essay

In the Metropolitan Museum catalogue, Dr. Geza von Habsburg refers to the above item to the well-known series of nephrite frogs shaped a cane-handles; see Christie's Geneva, 17 November 1993, lot 311, and 16 November 1994, lot 456.