AN AGATE MODEL OF A GOOSE
Fabergé, circa 1890
Realistically carved, with rose-cut diamond eyes, apparently unmarked
3 1/8in. (8cm.) high
Provenance
Christie's Geneva, 11 May 1982, lot 256
Exhibited
Munich, Kuntshalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé, 1986, no. 293, illustrated p. 193
Lot Essay
For orange and white agate animals by Fabergé in the Kremlin Museum carved in a similar style under the influence of Chinese art of A.K.S Snowman, The Art of CArl Fabergé, 1962, pl. 267
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