A Fabergé jewelled platinum and gold-mounted chalcedony pendant brooch, A. Holmström, St Petersburg, 1899-1904

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Fabergé from the Collection of Clarice Smith

A Fabergé jewelled platinum and gold-mounted chalcedony pendant brooch, A. Holmström, St Petersburg, 1899-1904

a convertible pendant brooch designed to emulate a kokoshnik as a stylised triangle set with a cabochon chalcedony accented by rose- and old mine-cut diamonds, further suspending a fringe of oval cabochon chalcedonies suspended from a diamond-set loop with removable brooch fitting on reverse, in an original fitted case, struck to the mounts and pinwith workmaster’s initials, 56 standard, scratched inventory number 73901

height 7.6cm; 3 in.

A La Vieille Russie, Paris, 1967
Acquired from the above, thence by descent

Exhibition catalogue The Art of the Goldsmith and Jeweler, New York, A La Vieille Russie, Inc., 1968, no. 287, p. 110, listed and illustrated
Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: Exhibition for the Benefit of the Scholarship Fund of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, New York, A La Vieille Russie, Inc., 1983, no. 370, p. 108, listed and illustrated