BY FABERGÉ, CIRCA 1890

For a similar carved kingfisher see Christie's Geneva, 18 November 1980, lot 132, noting the two similar models in bowenite and in nephrite, the later with gold feet, in the collection of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II exhibited in London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia: Fabergé 1846-1920 (1977), D52 & D53.