CROCHET HOOK
Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Henrik Immanuel Wigström (Workmaster)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
A tortoiseshell crochet hook with a gold finial. The finial is decorated with white vertical stripes and laurel leaf garland executed in the champlevé enamel technique. Similar garland encircles a small faceted amethyst on the top. Two bands of small rose-cut diamonds set in silver are around the top and bottom of the finial.
- Object name:
- CROCHET HOOK
- Made from:
- Gold -- enamel -- tortoiseshell -- diamonds -- amethyst
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1908-1917
- Size:
- 9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.85
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- MARK: Kokoshnik facing right (for 1908-1917); 56 (gold standard); H.W in Latin script for Henrik Wigström [On top] SCRATCH NUMBER: 20780 [On top]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973