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A hardstone and silver-gilt model of a heron
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description
- height 9cm, 3 1/2 in
makers' mark apparently F & Ce below a vertical baton in a horizontal lozenge, France, circa 1910, perhaps for Cartier
the long-legged agate bird standing hunched with faceted orange garnet eyes on two nephrite lilypads
the long-legged agate bird standing hunched with faceted orange garnet eyes on two nephrite lilypads
Catalogue Note
For an almost identical bird, resting on a crystal pond and eying a frog, workmaster Varangoz, from the Lindemann collection, see exhibition catalogue, von Hapsburg, Fabergé-Cartier, Rivale am Zarenhof, Munich, 2003/4, no. 668. The Cartier Archives record, 17/10/1907 "Héron cristal rose pattes or sur 2 feuilles nénuphars calcédoine reposant sur 1 patte, yeux brillants jaune".