Lot 159
  • 159

Fifteen Russian Miniature Easter Egg Pendants on a Gun Metal Chain, circa 1900

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Gold, silver, enamel, steel, hardstones, glass, diamonds, emeralds
three hardstone eggs; five glass eggs; a gold frog-form egg, apparently by Carl Blank; a silver and gold egg enameled translucent blue and painted with birds, Cyrillic maker's mark VB; a purpurine egg mounted with a gold Imperial eagle, probably by Oskar Pihl; another silver and gold egg enameled translucent oyster, apparently by FabergĂ© workmaster Fedor Afanassiev; a gold egg decorated with a ruby-set clover; a center-opening silver egg, Cyrillic maker's mark FB; and, a silver egg with enamel stripes

Condition

some small losses
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