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BY FABERGÉ, CIRCA 1890
Details
A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED AGATE MODEL OF A CHICK
by Fabergé, circa 1890
Realistically carved, with cabochon ruby eyes and gold feet, in original fitted case stamped, 'Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow, London' with Imperial warrant
1¾in. (4.5cm.) high
by Fabergé, circa 1890
Realistically carved, with cabochon ruby eyes and gold feet, in original fitted case stamped, 'Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow, London' with Imperial warrant
1¾in. (4.5cm.) high
Provenance
Henry Kleinmann & Son, Ltd., London, September 1984
Literature
Hill, G. Fabergé and the Russian Master Goldsmiths, New York, 1989, p. 119, ill. pl. no. 88 Forbes, C. & Tromeur-Brenner, R. Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 95, ill. p. 94
Exhibited
Lugano, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Fabergé Fantasies from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1987, no. 62, p. 74, ill.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Fabergé, Orfèvre à la Cour des Tsars, 1987, no. 62, p. 70. ill.
London, Ermitage, Fabergé Imperial Presents, 1987, no cat.
Houston, Houston Museum of Natural Science, The World of Fabergé: Russian Gems and Jewels, 1994, p. 53, ill.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Fabergé, Orfèvre à la Cour des Tsars, 1987, no. 62, p. 70. ill.
London, Ermitage, Fabergé Imperial Presents, 1987, no cat.
Houston, Houston Museum of Natural Science, The World of Fabergé: Russian Gems and Jewels, 1994, p. 53, ill.
Special notice
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