HANDLE
Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Henrik Immanuel Wigström (Workmaster)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
The elbow shaped handle is made from one piece of Siberian nephrite and is encircled by four bands of tiny diamonds. Each band has a small cabochon ruby at the outer center. The neck is made in yellow gold enameled in opaque white with crisscrossed bands of diamonds. On the front and back of the neck is tied with strands of small diamonds.
- Object name:
- HANDLE
- Made from:
- Nephrite -- diamonds -- rubies -- gold -- enamel
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1899-1908
- Size:
- 2 7/8 × 1 3/4 in. (7.3 × 4.4 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 21.192
- Class:
- HARDSTONE
- Signature marks:
- MARK: Kokoshnik left (1896-1908); 56 for gold value; HW in Latin script (Henrik Wigström) SCRATCHED NUMBER: Number 26247 scratched; number 12204 crossed out.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973