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A JEWELLED BOWENITE MODEL OF AN ELEPHANT

BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900

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A JEWELLED BOWENITE MODEL OF AN ELEPHANT
BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900
Carved realistically as a seated elephant, with ruby set eyes, apparently unmarked; in a fitted Wartski case
1 ¾ in. (4.5 cm.) high

Lord Ivar Mountbatten.
The William Kazan Collection; Christie's, New York, 15 April 1997, lot 127.
Private collection, London, 2010.

G. von Habsburg, Fabergé, Munich, 1986-1987, p. 199, no. 330.
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé Cartier, Rivalen am Zarenhof, Munich, 2003-2004, p. 249, no. 341.
Exhibition catalogue, The Last Flowering of Court Art: A Russian Private Collection of Fabergé, London, 2010, pp. 122-123, no. 44.
Michel Y. Ghosn, Objets de Vertu par Fabergé, 1996, no. 147.
Exhibition Catalogue, The Palace Museum, Beijing, 2018, pp. 616-617, no. 237.

Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé Hofjuwelier de Zaren, 5 December 1986 - 22 February 1987, no. 330.
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé -Cartier Rivalen am Zarenhof, 28 November 2003 - 12 April 2004, no. 341.
London, Wartski, The Last Flowering of Court Art: A Russian private collection of Fabergé, 24 November - 4 December 2010, no. 44.
Beijing, The Palace Museum, 17 April - 17 June 2018, no. 237.

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