Lot 18
  • 18

Twenty miniature Easter egg pendants, circa 1900

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • gold, silver, enamel, diamonds, garnets, emeralds, rubies
comprising three gem-set gold eggs, two with 56 standard; two gilded silver eggs with cloisonné enamel; seven gem-set gold eggs with guilloché enamel, 56 standard, one August Holmström and another August Hollming; a gem-set gold egg enameled in blue guilloché with obscured marks; a gold egg enameled pale green painted with the Hapsburg eagle, 56 standard; four gem-set or gold mounted hardstone eggs in nephrite, aventurine, and bowenite, 56 standard, the nephrite Eduard Schramm; a jeweled egg, 72 standard; a green guilloché enamel egg with jeweled mount, August Hollming. All suspended from a gold chain necklace.

Condition

with some small wear to the guilloché enamel eggs consistent with age and use
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