Lot 162
  • 162

Eleven Russian Miniature Easter Egg Pendants and a Pendant Locket, circa 1900

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Gold, silver, enamel, hardstones, pearl
a blue enameled silver set with a faceted red stone; a gold egg set with a jeweled flower spray, Cyrillic maker's mark VK; a silver egg enameled translucent strawberry red set with a faceted pale blue stone, maker's mark apparently AA; a silver bunny egg with nephrite body; a silver and gold egg enameled translucent pale blue, by Fabergé workmaster August Hollming; another silver and gold egg enameled translucent pink and set with a jeweled flower spray, apparently by Fabergé workmaster Henrik Wigström; a pink hardstone egg with varicolored gold cagework; a silver egg enameled pale green with gilded fleur-de-lis; a gold egg set with a faceted emerald; an openwork gold egg set with rubies and diamonds; and a silver egg enameled translucent pink, possibly by Erik Kollin; the small gold locket enameled translucent apple green with a border of diamonds. Together with a silver egg pendant enameled translucent red and applied with a pearl-set spider, Continental. All suspended from a gold chain necklace.

Provenance

Collection of Doris de Keyserlingk

Condition

some small losses to enamel
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