A CARVED ROCK CRYSTAL HAND SEAL

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A CARVED ROCK CRYSTAL HAND SEAL

BY FABERGÉ

Stylistically carved as a hooded figure in the Art Nouveau style, both hands raised to shroud the bowed head, marked on the base with a interlaced initials of the Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II
2¾in. (7cm.) high

Lot Essay

For similar examples of such figures in rhodonite and nephrite see
A. Kenneth Snowman, The Art of Carl Fabergé (London, 1962) pl. 164 and New York, A la Vieille Russie, Fabergé, 1983, no. 245.

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