A JEWELLED NEPHRITE GOLD-MOUNTED PARASOL HANDLE

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A JEWELLED NEPHRITE GOLD-MOUNTED PARASOL HANDLE
marked Fabergé, workmaster Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, circa 1890

Realistically carved as a frog, with rose-cut diamond eyes set in gold, climbing a realistically cast and chased gold bamboo stick -- 10.3 cm high

Lot Essay

For a similar cane handle see Christie's Geneva, 17 November 1993, lot 311, also for a similar carving of a frog on a hand-seal, belonging to Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales, see London, Wartski, Fabergé from Private Collections (1992), N-5 (cover illustration).

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