A gemset gold miniature egg

WITH UNRECORDED MAKER'S INITIAL'S AK, ST. PETERSBURG, 1890

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A gemset gold miniature egg
with unrecorded maker's initial's AK, St. Petersburg, 1890
Ovoid, the stipled gold ground applied with blossoms of five emeralds and rose-cut diamonds, with suspension ring, marked on ring
3/8in. (1cm.) long

來源

Lord Ivar Mountbatten

拍品專文

Lord Ivar Mountbatten is descended from the Russian Imperial Family through his grandmother, Nadezhda Mikhailovna, Countess Torby, 2nd Marchioness of Milford Haven. Her father, Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich, the grandson of Nicholas I through his youngest son, was married morganatically to Sophie, Countess Merenberg, the daughter of Nicholas, Prince of Nassau, and his morganatic wife Natalia Alexandrovna, the daughter of the poet Alexander Pushkin.