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SEAL

Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Henrik Immanuel Wigström (Workmaster)

On view in: Icon Room


About this object

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 the base is a band of laurel leaves carved in green gold. Never engraved.

Object name:
SEAL
Made from:
Gold -- enamel -- pearls -- emerald quartz -- agate
Made in:
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Date made:
1908-1917
Size:
1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
11.221
Class:
GOLD
Signature marks:
MARK: kokoshnik facing right with dot under chin (assay mark of St. Petersburg (1908-1917); 72; HW (initials of Henrik Wigström)
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973