Jewellery, Watches, Silver and Objects of Vertu

A Russian miniature gold mounted egg pendant, circa 1900, of horseshoe design, the horseshoe enclosing a rhodochrosite egg within lattice cage, 56 standard, on small loop attached to a suspension loop and further larger ring loop, total length 29mm. £600-£800

Purchased by the vendor from Christie’s Geneva, Important Works of Art by Carl Fabergé, sale 13 May 1981, lot 180, for SFR £2600.

Cyrillic maker’s mark, possibly for Pavel Shesterin, circa 1898, of Kostroma - see: Geoffrey Watts: Russian Silversmiths’ Hallmarks 1700 to 1917, page 175.

Gross weight 3.6gm.