BY FABERGÉ, CIRCA 1900

Details

An Obsidian Model of a Seal
By Fabergé, circa 1900
Realistically carved, reclining on a carved rock-crystal ice floe, in the original silk and velvet lined wood case stamped 'Fabergé St. Petersburg Moscow' beneath the Imperial warrant, unmarked
The seal, 5 in. (12.7 cm.) long, including base 7¼ (18.5 cm.) long

Provenance

Almost certainly acquired by Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, née
Gordon-Lennox (1887-1982), Duchess of Portland.
Thence by family descent.

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Lot Essay

For comparable obsidian and rock crystal models of seals, see C. de Guitaut, Fabergé in the Royal Collection, London, pp. 88-89, no. 86 (RCIN 40811), illustrated, and G. von Habsburg-Lothringen and A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé: Court Jeweller to the Tsars, London, 1979, p. 78, pl. 92.

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