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A JEWELLED NEPHRITE MODEL OF A CROCODILE
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A JEWELLED NEPHRITE MODEL OF A CROCODILE

BY FABERGÉ, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900

已结束2019年11月25日

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GBP 52,500

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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.

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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.