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BY FABERGÉ AND WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF ALFRED THIELEMANN, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890
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A JEWELLED GOLD AND AGATE STICKPIN
by Fabergé and with the workmaster's mark of Alfred Thielemann, St. Petersburg, circa 1890
The realistically carved sherry agate blackamoor's head set with rose-cut diamond eyes, wearing earrings each set with a diamond and a pearl drop, the gold collar set with diamonds and rubies, marked on pin, in an original fitted case stamped 'Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa' with Imperial warrant
3¼in. (8.2cm.) long
by Fabergé and with the workmaster's mark of Alfred Thielemann, St. Petersburg, circa 1890
The realistically carved sherry agate blackamoor's head set with rose-cut diamond eyes, wearing earrings each set with a diamond and a pearl drop, the gold collar set with diamonds and rubies, marked on pin, in an original fitted case stamped 'Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa' with Imperial warrant
3¼in. (8.2cm.) long
Provenance
Wartski, London
Walter Neil Letson, Florida, November 1985
Walter Neil Letson, Florida, November 1985
Literature
Forbes, C. & Tromeur-Brenner, R. Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 162, ill. p. 163
Exhibited
Lugano, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Fabergé Fantasies from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1987, no. 52, p. 70, ill.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Fabergé, Orfèvre à la Cour des Tsars, 1987, cat. no. 52, p. 66, ill.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Fabergé, Orfèvre à la Cour des Tsars, 1987, cat. no. 52, p. 66, ill.
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