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A GOLD-MOUNTED JADE SWIVEL-SEAL
by Fabergé, workmaster August Holmström, St. Petersburg, circa 1870
The oval jade engraved with two Grand Duke coat-of-arms pivoting on a plain gold semi-oval mount, suspended from a gold chain with four graduated jade cabochon, two circular and two oval, each flanked by rose-cut diamonds within square mount - seal 4 cm long
by Fabergé, workmaster August Holmström, St. Petersburg, circa 1870
The oval jade engraved with two Grand Duke coat-of-arms pivoting on a plain gold semi-oval mount, suspended from a gold chain with four graduated jade cabochon, two circular and two oval, each flanked by rose-cut diamonds within square mount - seal 4 cm long
Provenance
By family descent, from Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich "The elder" (1831-1881). Commander-in-chief of the Russian and Allied armies in the Balkan War in 1877, Field-Marshal.