Live Auction 5961Important Russian Art
A JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD EGG PENDANT
Lot 219

A JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD EGG PENDANT

BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF ANDREI GORIANOV, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900

Closed26 November 2012

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A JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD EGG PENDANT
BY FABERGÉ, WITH THE WORKMASTER'S MARK OF ANDREI GORIANOV, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900
Ovoid, the body decorated with openwork flower-heads, each set with either rose-cut diamonds or seed-pearls, centring the photograph of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, marked on loop
5/8 in. (1.8 cm.) high

Acquired by the family of the present owner in the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 20th century.

Specialist note

A nearly identical egg pendant by Andrei Gorianov set with a photograph of Alexandra Feodorovna is illustrated in G. von Habsburg, Fabergé - Cartier, Rivalen am Zarenhof, Munich, 2003, p. 273, no. 413.