A Fabergé carved agate parrot with gilded silver and guilloché enamel stand, workmaster Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, 1908-1917

the finely carved bird with diamond eyes, head to one side and seated on its T-shaped perch with gilded silver claws, the perch enameled in translucent oyster over an engine-turned ground, set on round gilded silver base on three bun feet, struck with workmaster’s initials, Fabergé in Cyrillic, 91 standard, scratched inventory number 18591

well carved and lively, attractive and bright, some minimal wear to gilding on base
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Comparable hardstone models of birds on perches are preserved in the Royal Collection (see C. de Guitaut, Fabergé in the Royal Collection, London, 2003, pp. 81-82, 90, nos. 76-78, 90-91) and in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (see G. von Habsburg, Fabergé Revealed, NY, 2011, pp. 212-213, nos. 102-105). For a further example of a parrot on a perch in the Cleveland Museum of Art, see G. von Habsburg, Fabergé in America, NY, 1996, p. 109, no. 88. Comparable models have been sold Sotheby’s New York, 11 December 1996, lot 504; Christie’s London, 15 December 2000, lot 150, and Christie’s New York, 24 April 2009, lot 238.