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16 December 2014

Beautiful Jeweled Items

A jeweled silver-gilt and guilloché enamel gum pot by Fabergé with the workmaster's mark of Andrei Gorianov, St. Petersburg, 1908-1917.

A bouquet of hardstone strawberries and gold.

A collection of seven enamelled egg boxes.

A colored sapphire and diamond butterfly hair clip.

An enamel and gold elephant sculpture by David Webb.

The imperial Fabergé pearl and gem-set "Mosaic" Easter egg, now in the collection of Queen Elizabeth II.

A gold and enamel perfume flask, circa 1900.

A gold peacock pocket watch.

A gold, platinum, diamond and ruby compact by Cartier, London, 1940.

Queen Mary II (1662-1694) gold and gem-set coronation orb.

The Sovereign's Orb, used in British coronation ceremonies.

06 February 2012

Fabergé Pendants and Necklaces

The Russian firm of Faberge were masters in enamel work, and used it frequently in their designs. Perhaps less well known is their fine jewelry they made, most of which was executed in diamonds, and often in rock crystal. Rock crystal is actually glass, but of very fine quality.

 A Faberge egg charm necklace.




 A carved amethyst chick and gold pendant. The chick's eyes are diamonds.

 A interesting diamond festoon pendant with a large cabochon sapphire.

 A charming egg pendant, with a diamond and ruby chick crawling out of the cracked eggshell.

 A classical oval floral diamond pendant with a baroque pearl suspended in the middle.

 A very fun, multi-colored pendant necklace with small animals and egg charms.

 A small Faberge egg pendant in its original box.

 A smooth gold egg with an enameled spiderweb design, with a diamond and ruby spider.

 An elephant pendant, alluding to the Danish ancestry of the Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia.

 A Faberge sketch for an emerald and diamond necklace.

 A gold sensual woman pendant, with a singular collet-set diamond.

 A pink-enameled Rococo-style pendant in gold, diamonds, and rubies.

 A beautiful gold and diamond pendant, redolent of a page from an illuminated manuscript.

 A drawing for an impressive emerald and diamond necklace.

 A delicate pearl and diamond necklace, pictured in its original Faberge box.

 A carnelian and gold demi-parure, consisting of a necklace, earrings, and a brooch.

 A moonstone and diamond pendant in its original box.

 A diamond and pink topaz pendant.

 An interesting, Russian design of large oval Amethysts, topped with a Russian Imperial crown motif.

 A circular pendant of diamonds, pearls, and peach-colored enamel.

 A "frost" pendant watch, of diamonds and rock crystal.

 A Christmas-y oval pendant, of gold, enamel, and diamonds.

 A drawing for a delicate diamond and sapphire necklace.

 Prince Felix Felixovitch Youssoupoff and his wife, the Princess Irina Alexandrovna. Youssoupoff was the main instigator in the murder of the moujik mystic, Grigoriy Yefimovitch Rasputin. The pendant on the right is in gold and white enamel, and contains the Cyrillic initials of Princess Irina.

An oval, geometric diamond and pearl pendant necklace.

21 January 2012

Fabergé's Easter Eggs



A Cyrillic "Ch" and "V", which stands for something which translates as "Christ has risen," which is a fitting phrase for an Easter Egg.

Three pendants, the first of a gold chicken with a small enameled egg dangling from its mouth, and the second two of finely enameled red and blue eggs.


Less grand versions of the Imperial Easter eggs, where this one uses only enamels.

 An Imperial Easter Egg by Faberge, which opens to reveal the pink enameled heart statue at the left.


The Danish elephant, alluding to Empress Maria Fedorovna's Danish heritage.


 An Imperial Easter egg which opens to reveal a gold and enamel model of a ship.

 The most impressive Imperial Easter Egg, the Coronation Egg of Tsar Nicholas II, formerly in the Forbes Collection. It sold at auction about a decade ago for an astonishing $25 million.

 The Hen Egg - Presented by Tsar Alexander III to his wife the Empress Maria Feodorovna at Easter 1885

 A heart which opens to reveal miniature portraits of Tsarina Alexandra, Tsar Nikolai II, and their first child, the Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevich.

 A group of 4 small Faberge egg pendants.

 A lilac enamel and gold pendant, in an egg-y shape...


The Fifteenth Anniversary Egg - Presented by Tsar Nicholas II to his wife the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna at Easter 1911.


The Orange Tree Egg - Presented by Tsar Nicholas II to his mother the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna at Easter 1911.

The Order of St George Egg - Presented by Tsar Nicholas II to his mother the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna at Easter 1916.