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Wartski

Carl Faberge

A jewelled and enamelled gold desk seal by Carl Fabergé

Aquamarine, enamelled gold

Russia

1913

Chief Workmaster: Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, circa 1913, inventory number: 11172.

4.8 cm tall

description

The handle an aquamarine, its domed hexagonal shape paying homage to the stone’s original hexagonal crystal system, held in a gold sleeve of openwork laurel leaves panels, above a tapering circular gold mount enamelled translucent pink over a finely engraved ground, the agate seal stone uncut.