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A JEWELLED NEPHRITE MODEL OF A CROCODILE
Lot 213 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION

A JEWELLED NEPHRITE MODEL OF A CROCODILE

BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900

Closed25 November 2019

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A JEWELLED NEPHRITE MODEL OF A CROCODILE
BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900
Carved realistically as a crocodile, with rose-cut diamond-set eyes, apparently unmarked; in a fitted Wartski case
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) long

Purchased by Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928) from the St Petersburg branch of Fabergé on 9 February 1895 for 160 roubles.
HRH Thyra, Princess of Denmark, the Crown Princess of Hanover, Duchess of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1853-1933).
HRH Princess Olga of Hanover and Cumberland, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1884-1958).
Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick (1914-1987).
HRH Monika, Princess of Hanover, Countess zu Solms-Laubach (1929-2015).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 24 November 2008, lot 94.
Private collection, London, 2008.

Specialist note


The present nephrite crocodile was purchased by the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, and was probably presented to her younger sister Thyra, Princess of Denmark, as a gift.