A rare carved rock-crystal Hand-Seal
by Fabergé, St. Petersburg, circa 1890
Stylistically carved as a shrouded figure with face covered in the Art Nouveau style, the base later engraved with the initials of Grand Duchess Olga, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, apparently unmarked
2¾in. (7cm.) high
拍品專文
For two similar examples in rhodonite and nephrite see A. Kenneth Snowman, The Art of Carl Fabergé, (London, 1962), plate 164, and New York, A la Vieille Russie, Fabergé, 1983, no.245.