Details
A JEWELLED CHALCEDONY MODEL OF A POUTER PIGEON
BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900
Realistically carved as a standing pouter pigeon, the eyes set with cabochon rubies, apparently unmarked
2 1⁄4 in. (5.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Lady Juliet Duff (1881-1965), née Lowther.
Acquired from Wartski, London, in October 1989.
Literature
H.C. Bainbridge, Peter Carl Fabergé, London, 1949, pl. 76 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé from Private Collections, London, 1992, no. 113 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller, St Petersburg, 1993, p. 292, no. 161 (illustrated).
A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé, Juwelier des Zarenhofes, Heidelberg, 1995, p. 64, no. 20 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Carl Fabergé, Goldsmith to the Tsar, Stockholm, 1997, p. 115, no. 54 (illustrated).
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 308, no. 825 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Carl Fabergé. A Private Collection, London, 2012, pp. 40-41, no. 31 (illustrated).
Exhibited
London, Wartski, Fabergé from Private Collections, 2 - 15 December 1992, no. 113.
St Petersburg, Hermitage State Museum; Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller, June 1993 - April 1994, no. 161.
Hamburg, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Fabergé, Juweilier des Zarenhofes, 12 April - 25 June 1995, no. 20.
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Carl Fabergé, Goldsmith to the Tsar, 6 - 19 October 1997, no. 54.
London, Spencer House, Fabergé from Private Collections - An exhibition on behalf of Music in Country Churches, 8 December 1998, no. 25.
Wilmington, Riverfront Arts Centre, Fabergé, Imperial Craftsman and his World, 14 August 2000 - 28 February 2001, no. 825.
London, Wartski, Carl Fabergé. A Private Collection, 15 - 25 May 2012, no. 31.
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