Lot 212
212
A JEWELLED, GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE MODEL OF AN ELEPHANT WITH A HOWDAH
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A JEWELLED, GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE MODEL OF AN ELEPHANT WITH A HOWDAH

BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1910, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 20165

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A JEWELLED, GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL GOLD-MOUNTED NEPHRITE MODEL OF AN ELEPHANT WITH A HOWDAH
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1910, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 20165
Humorously carved, standing, with rose-cut diamond-set eyes, supporting a gold howdah, guilloché enamelled in red and surmounted by a pearl, with an enamelled figure of a mahout, marked on howdah, also with London import marks for 1910; in a fitted Hammer Galleries wood case
2 ½ in. (6.4 cm.) high
Provenance
With Hammer Galleries, New York.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Peter Carl Fabergé Imperial Court Jeweler 1846-1920, Hammer Galleries, New York, 1951, p. 11, no. 23 (listed).
Exhibited
New York, Hammer Galleries, Peter Carl Fabergé Imperial Court Jeweler 1846-1920, 28 March-28 April, 1951, no. 23.
Special notice
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Descriptif du lot

This rare model of an elephant appears to have previously contained a passenger inside the howdah, as described in the Hammer Galleries' exhibition catalogue from 1951. Notably, the present model of an elephant is surmounted by a howdah rather than a turret, inspired by the Order of the Elephant, the highest order of chivalry in Denmark. Comparable models of elephants with turrets were sold at Christie's, London, 25 November 2013, lots 216 and 217.

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