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SEAL
SEAL
11.174
Unknown
19th c.
The seal is carved in topaz. It has a gold mount, back like daisy, each petal engraved with a series of leaves. Handle is ebony.
BROOCH WITH CAMEO OF CATHERINE II AS MINERVA
BROOCH WITH CAMEO OF CATHERINE II AS MINERVA
11.207
Unknown (Engraver)
after 1789
Cameo depicts Catherine II in profile facing to the right. She is shown in the guise of the goddess Minerva, wearing a classical helmet with laurel leaves crowned with an image of the sphinx. The...
LEAF-SHAPED BOX
LEAF-SHAPED BOX
11.219.1-2
Fabergé (Firm)
1899-1908
Regardless of an object's style, an understated use of gemstones was central to Fabergé's concept of a beautiful object. He limited their use to accents on a clasp, a cipher, or some other...
SEAL
SEAL
11.220
Fabergé (Firm)
1903-1908
The handle is a six-sided crystal of aquamarine. The trumpet shaped base is enameled in translucent peach colored enamel with swags of a purplish color floating in it, the whole over an engraved...
SEAL
SEAL
11.221
Fabergé (Firm)
1908-1917
The handle of the seal is in emerald quartz. Beneath the handle is a circle of half pearls encrusted in the band of green gold. Below them, there is pink enamel over an engraved ground, and about...
SWIVEL SEAL
SWIVEL SEAL
11.222
Fabergé (Attributed to)
1899-1908
This swivel seal is made of purpurine glass suspended in a frame of red and green gold carved with rows of laurel leaves beneath a lover's knot. The seal was intended to be engraved with the...
CHALICE
CHALICE
11.223
Iver Winfeldt Buch (Goldsmith)
1791
In December 1790, Catherine the Great commissioned Iver Windfeldt Buch to produce two liturgical sets, each comprising a chalice and several other pieces necessary for celebrating the divine...
MEDALLION WITH BUSTS OF ALEXANDER III AND MARIA FEODOROVNA
MEDALLION WITH BUSTS OF ALEXANDER III AND MARIA FEODOROVNA
11.225
Avenir Griliches (Engraver)
1883
On obverse is profile bust of Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna, facing to right. On reverse imperial double headed eagle bearing the shield of St. George and the Dragon with eight shields on wings.
FRAME
FRAME
11.231
Unknown (Jeweler)
20th Century
Rectangular frame is enameled pink on a guilloche ground with a rosette in each corner. Inner edge is beaded and the outer one with leaves. Back is in holly.
SWIVEL SEAL
SWIVEL SEAL
11.233
Unknown
19th c.
The seal is twelve-sided with each side containing a sign of the zodiac. Swivel holder is in gold.
EGG PENDANT
EGG PENDANT
11.234
Unknown
19th c.
Egg is slightly larger than the usual miniature eggs. Re-polished. Ring in gold.
EGG
EGG
11.235
Unknown (Jeweler)
early 20th Century
Goldstone egg has gold ring at top.