Lot Essay
The present nephrite crocodile was purchased by the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, and was probably presented to her younger sister Thyra, Princess of Denmark, as a gift.
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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION
A JEWELLED NEPHRITE MODEL OF A CROCODILE
BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900
Details
A JEWELLED NEPHRITE MODEL OF A CROCODILE
BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900
Carved realistically as a crocodile, with rose-cut diamond-set eyes, apparently unmarked; in a fitted Wartski case
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) long
BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900
Carved realistically as a crocodile, with rose-cut diamond-set eyes, apparently unmarked; in a fitted Wartski case
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) long
Provenance
Purchased by Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928) from the St Petersburg branch of Fabergé on 9 February 1895 for 160 roubles.
HRH Thyra, Princess of Denmark, the Crown Princess of Hanover, Duchess of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1853-1933).
HRH Princess Olga of Hanover and Cumberland, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1884-1958).
Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick (1914-1987).
HRH Monika, Princess of Hanover, Countess zu Solms-Laubach (1929-2015).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 24 November 2008, lot 94.
Private collection, London, 2008.
HRH Thyra, Princess of Denmark, the Crown Princess of Hanover, Duchess of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1853-1933).
HRH Princess Olga of Hanover and Cumberland, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1884-1958).
Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick (1914-1987).
HRH Monika, Princess of Hanover, Countess zu Solms-Laubach (1929-2015).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 24 November 2008, lot 94.
Private collection, London, 2008.
Literature
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé, Munich, 1986-1987, p. 198, no. 325.
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé Cartier, Rivalen am Zarenhof, Munich, 2003-2004, p. 246, no. 323.
Exhibition catalogue, The Last Flowering of Court Art: A Russian Private Collection of Fabergé, London, 2010, pp. 150-151, no. 56.
Exhibition Catalogue, The Palace Museum, Beijing, 2018.
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé Cartier, Rivalen am Zarenhof, Munich, 2003-2004, p. 246, no. 323.
Exhibition catalogue, The Last Flowering of Court Art: A Russian Private Collection of Fabergé, London, 2010, pp. 150-151, no. 56.
Exhibition Catalogue, The Palace Museum, Beijing, 2018.
Exhibited
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé Hofjuwelier de Zaren, 5 December 1986 - 22 February 1987, no. 325.
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé -Cartier Rivalen am Zarenhof, 28 November 2003 - 12 April 2004, no. 323.
London, Wartski, The Last Flowering of Court Art: A Russian private collection of Fabergé, 24 November - 4 December 2010, no. 56.
Beijing, The Palace Museum, 17 April - 17 June 2018.
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé -Cartier Rivalen am Zarenhof, 28 November 2003 - 12 April 2004, no. 323.
London, Wartski, The Last Flowering of Court Art: A Russian private collection of Fabergé, 24 November - 4 December 2010, no. 56.
Beijing, The Palace Museum, 17 April - 17 June 2018.
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The present nephrite crocodile was purchased by the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, and was probably presented to her younger sister Thyra, Princess of Denmark, as a gift.