A MINIATURE AGATE AND GOLD MODEL OF A HEN
A MINIATURE AGATE AND GOLD MODEL OF A HEN

BY FABERGÉ, CIRCA 1890

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A MINIATURE AGATE AND GOLD MODEL OF A HEN
by Fabergé, circa 1890
Realistically carved, with realistically chased and engraved gold legs and feet, apparently unmarked, in an original wooden box, the cover stamped in Russian 'Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow' with Imperial warrant
1 3/8in. (3.5cm.) high
Provenance
Christie's Geneva, 19 November 1991, lot 353
Exhibited
Hamburg, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Fabergé: Juwelier des Zarenhofes, April 11-June 25 1995, no. 30, ill. p. 72
Delaware, Broughton Museum, Fabergé, September 9 2000-February 18 2001, no. 831, p. 309, ill.

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