A Fabergé gem-set gold and guilloché enamel 'Bay Tree' brooch, probably August Holmström, St Petersburg, circa 1900
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
A Fabergé gem-set gold and guilloché enamel 'Bay Tree' brooch, probably August Holmström, St Petersburg, circa 1900
shaped as a flowering orange tree in a pot, with gold stems, green guilloché enamel leaves and flowers set with pearls, with oyster white enamel ribbon-tied frame, struck on the pin with indistinct maker's mark, with scratched inventory number 85994
height 2.2cm, 1in.
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For similarly designed brooches, please see K. Snowman, Fabergé: Lost and Found, London, 1993, p. 49