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BY FABERGÉ, APPARENTLY UNMARKED
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A JEWELLED AVENTURINE QUARTZ ASHTRAY
by Fabergé, apparently unmarked
The aventurine quartz bowl shaped as a rocky pool with two realistically carved models of a bear and its cub, both with demantoid eyes, sitting on one side, apparently unmarked, in original fitted case stamped, 'K. Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow, London' with Imperial warrant
6 3/16in. (15.7cm.) long
by Fabergé, apparently unmarked
The aventurine quartz bowl shaped as a rocky pool with two realistically carved models of a bear and its cub, both with demantoid eyes, sitting on one side, apparently unmarked, in original fitted case stamped, 'K. Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow, London' with Imperial warrant
6 3/16in. (15.7cm.) long
Provenance
Igor Shulman, February 1984
Literature
von Solodkoff, A. Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, New York, 1984, p. 167, ill.
Forbes, C. & Tromeur-Brenner, R. Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 236, ill. p. 237
Forbes, C. & Tromeur-Brenner, R. Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 236, ill. p. 237
Exhibited
Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1984, no. 20
Lugano, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Fabergé Fantasies from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1987, no. 55, p. 71, ill.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Fabergé, Orfèvre à la Cour des Tsars, 1987, no. 55, p. 67, ill.
Houston, Houston Museum of Natural Science, The World of Fabergé: Russian Gems and Jewels, 1994, no cat.
Lugano, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Fabergé Fantasies from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1987, no. 55, p. 71, ill.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Fabergé, Orfèvre à la Cour des Tsars, 1987, no. 55, p. 67, ill.
Houston, Houston Museum of Natural Science, The World of Fabergé: Russian Gems and Jewels, 1994, no cat.
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