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AN AGATE MODEL OF A HIPPOPOTAMUS
Lot 2 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED MIDWEST PRIVATE COLLECTION

AN AGATE MODEL OF A HIPPOPOTAMUS

BY FABERGÉ, CIRCA 1890

Closed15 April 2013

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AN AGATE MODEL OF A HIPPOPOTAMUS
BY FABERGÉ, CIRCA 1890
Realistically carved, standing, with rose-cut diamond eyes, in the original silk and velvet-lined wood box stamped in Russian 'Fabergé St. Petersburg Moscow.' beneath the Imperial warrant
2 in. (5.1 cm.) long

Wartski, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1996.