A JEWELLED, GUILLOCHE ENAMEL, NEPHRITE GOLD-MOUNTED PARASOL HANDLE

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A JEWELLED, GUILLOCHE ENAMEL, NEPHRITE GOLD-MOUNTED PARASOL HANDLE
by Fabergé, workmaster Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, 1908-1917

Realistically carved as a frog, with rose-cut diamond eyes set in gold, climbing on a moiré guilloché translucent white enamel tubular column, mounted at its base with a rose-cut diamonds rim.
9.3 cm high

Lot Essay

For a similar cane handle see A.K. Snowman, Carl Fabergé, (New York, 1983), p. 131 and also London, Wartski, Fabergé from private collections (1992) cover, for a similar carving of a frog on a handseal, belonging to Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.

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