Lot 322
  • 322

A group of ten egg pendants

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Silver, gold, lapis lazuli
  • height of the largest 1.7cm, 3/4 in.
comprising a small carved green chryoprase egg in a gold wirework basket; a turquoise-coloured enamelled egg, St Petersburg, 1899-1904, struck with illegible maker's mark; a carved lapis lazuli egg; a gold swirl-textured egg set with a blue topaz, St Petersburg 1908-1917, struck with partial maker's mark, possibly HB; an emerald-set white enamel egg, struck with partial maker's mark, possibly ES; a pink enamelled egg wrapped with white stripes and yellow leaves, Vasilii Soloviev, St Petersburg, possibly retailed by Fabergé, struck with workmaster's initials; a small plain gold egg, St Petersburg, 1899-1904; a blue enamelled egg, struck with partial maker's mark, possibly HW; a red enamelled egg, struck with partial maker's mark, possibly AA, possibly for Andrei Adler; all with gold loops, 56 standard; and a Fabergé silver flattened egg pendant enamelled with a translucent Red Cross on an opaque white ground, the reverse engraved 1915, struck KF in Cyrillic, 88 standard; the pendants suspending from a gold openlink bracelet, Moscow, 1908-1917, struck with maker's mark IDK (Cyrillic), 56 standard

Condition

The eggs in excellent condition with the following exceptions: turquoise-colored enamel egg: losses to the enamel, visible in the catalogue photo, most shallow but one down to the metal white enamel egg: restored losses, some of which visible in the catalogue photo pink enamel egg: losses to the opaque enamel yellow leaves blue egg: small enamel loss, just barely down to the metal red egg: small, shallow enamel loss, not down to the metal
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