A JEWELLED AVENTURINE QUARTZ MODEL OF A WILD BOAR
A JEWELLED AVENTURINE QUARTZ MODEL OF A WILD BOAR
A JEWELLED AVENTURINE QUARTZ MODEL OF A WILD BOAR
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A JEWELLED AVENTURINE QUARTZ MODEL OF A WILD BOAR

BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900

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A JEWELLED AVENTURINE QUARTZ MODEL OF A WILD BOAR
BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900
Realistically carved as a seated boar, with rose-cut diamond-set eyes, apparently unmarked
2 5⁄8 in. (6.7 cm.) long
Provenance
Acquired from Wartski, London, in February 1990.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé from Private Collections, London, 1992, no. 115.
Exhibition catalogue, Carl Fabergé, Goldsmith to the Tsar, Stockholm, 1997, p. 107, no. 36 (illustrated).
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 308, no. 826 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Carl Fabergé. A Private Collection, London, 2012, pp. 126-127, no. 106 (illustrated).
Exhibited
London, Wartski, Fabergé from Private Collections, 2 - 15 December 1992, no. 115.
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Carl Fabergé, Goldsmith to the Tsar, 6 - 19 October 1997, no. 36.
London, Spencer House, Fabergé from Private Collections - An exhibition on behalf of Music in Country Churches, 8 December 1998, no. 30.
Wilmington, Riverfront Arts Centre, Fabergé, Imperial Craftsman and his World, 14 August 2000 - 28 February 2001, no. 826.
London, Wartski, Carl Fabergé. A Private Collection, 15 - 25 May 2012, no. 106.

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