BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900

Details

A JEWELLED AND GOLD-MOUNTED OBSIDIAN MODEL OF A CROW
BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900
Realistically carved, with rose-cut diamond-set eyes, with finely chased gold feet, apparently unmarked
2 ¾ in. (7 cm.) long

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Carl Fabergé, Wartski, London, 1949, p. 19, no. 214 (listed).

Exhibited

London, Wartski, A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Carl Fabergé, 8 - 25 November 1949, no. 214.

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Lot Essay

For another model of a hardstone crow by Fabergé from the Royal Collection, see C. de Guitaut, Fabergé in the Royal Collection, London, 2003, p. 63, no. 32.

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