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A vari-color gold-mounted miniature bloodstone cup, circa 1900

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • bloodstone, gold, enamel
  • height 2 3/8 in.; 6 cm
the reeded red gold legs with green gold garlands, held by a gold two-ruble coin of Elizabeth I dated 1756 and enameled red, set on ribbon-tied wreath of vari-color gold and surmounted by a carved bloodstone cup, probably Fabergé

Condition

overall good condition
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Catalogue Note

For a similar Fabergé cup set with a coin of Nicholas II, see A la Vieille Russie, Fabergé: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 1983, no. 301, pp. 94-95.