Details
A JEWELLED GOLD AND SILVER-GILT MODEL OF AN OWL IN A CAGE
by Fabergé and with the workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, 1899-1908, with scratched inventory number 8800 or 2800
Realistically carved, with diamond eyes and silver-gilt claws, in a silver-gilt cage with drawer and door and containing a water dish and a dish containing seed pearl, marked underneath and on the side of the tray
4 1/8in. (10.5cm.) high
Literature
von Solodkoff, A. Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, New York, 1984, p. 166, ill.
Forbes, C. & Tromeur-Brenner, R. Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, New York, 1999, p. 95, ill. p. 94
Exhibited
New York, A La Vieille Russie, Fabergé, 1983, no. 426, p. 117, ill. p. 29
Fort Worth, The Kimbell Art Museum, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1983, no. 19
Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1983/84, no. 8
Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Fabergé, The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1984, no. 24
Lugano, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Fabergé Fantasies from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 1987, no. 59, p. 73, ill.
Paris, Museé Jaquemart-André, Fabergé, Orfèvre à la Cour des Tsars, 1987, no. 59, p. 69, ill.
London, Ermitage, Fabergé Imperial Presents, 1987, no cat.
New York/San Fancisco/Richmond/New Orleans/Cleveland, Metropolitan Museum of Art, H.M. De Young Memorial Museum, Museum of Fine Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Fabergé in America, 1996/97, no. 252, p. 249, ill.
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