A KALGAN JASPER MODEL OF AN ELEPHANT
A KALGAN JASPER MODEL OF AN ELEPHANT

BY FABERGÉ, CIRCA 1890

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A KALGAN JASPER MODEL OF AN ELEPHANT
by Fabergé, circa 1890
Realistically carved with inward curled trunk, with dematoid eyes, apparently unmarked, in a fitted case stamped 'Wartski'
1¾in. (4.4cm.) long
Provenance
Wartski, London, August 1983
Exhibited
Zurich, Bellerive Museum, Fabergé, Works of Art, May 31-September 3 1989, no. 134, p. 60, ill.
Hamburg, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Fabergé: Juwelier des Zarenhofes, April 11-June 25 1995, no. 12, ill. p. 58
Delaware, Broughton Museum, Fabergé, September 2000-February 18 2001, no. 821, p. 308, ill.

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