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A warthog, carved in pale brown agate, with rose diamond eyes.Described by the late Kenneth Snowman as being of ‘authentic repulsiveness’, this is none the less a fine example of realistic modelling by Fabergé’s sculptors.Text adapted from Fabergé in the Royal Collection
A cockerel carved in amber coloured agate with rose cut diamond eyes and gold feet and claws.
A snail, carved in parti-coloured cream and brown agate; a one-piece carving in cameo technique.This snail is unusual because it has been carved in the manner of a cameo, with the different strata of the stone used to define the tips of the snail’s tentacles and distinguish its shell from its body.Text adapted from Fabergé in the Royal Collection
Both King Edward VII and the Prince of Wales (later King George V) kept homing pigeons at Sandringham next to Queen Alexandras dove-house. According to contemporary accounts, most of the pigeons were of famous Belgian breeds. This one is of carved chalcedony with ruby eyes and gold chased feet.Text adapted from Fabergés Animals: A Royal Farm in Miniature
A honey-coloured agate chick, with rose diamond eyes and chased gold legs, its head turned to the left.
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A rabbit, crouching and formed into an oval shape with ears; carved in translucent grey aventurine quartz with olivine eyes. One of the more humorous of Fabergé’s animals. The shape of the rabbit accentuating its comical appearance.Text adapted from Fabergé in the Royal Collection
A small duck carved in chalcedony with cabochon cut ruby eyes and gold legs and feet.
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Green enamel seal with tapering circular body set with pearls, top hung with garland of laurels in green gold. Pink stone on base engraved with ALIX in Cyrillic characters.
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An elephant, in netsuke form, carved in purpurine with rose diamond eyes.The stylised low-relief carving of this elephant, carved in purpurine with rose diamond eyes, particularly demonstrates Fabergé’s interest in Japanese netsuke carving. It was necessary for Fabergé’s sculptors to keep the carving dense to ensure that the fragile stone did not fracture. One of Fabergés designers, Franz Birbaum, notes when describing the animal carvings, ‘it should be said that the...
A rat in grey chalcedony with rose cut diamond eyes, its tails and ears set in silver.They are eight Fabergé rats and mice in the Royal Collection, most of which are hardstone set with diamond encrusted tails and ears. These objects, while less realistic than many of the other Sandringham animals, would nonetheless have had their place among the creatures encountered by Fabergés sculptors on the estate.Text adapted from Fabergés Animals: A Royal Farm in Miniature
A carved vari-coloured agate chimpanzee with folded arms, with olivine eyes. Carved from a single piece of agate the body is of a tawny colour and the face grey-blue.
A carved sitting pig in chalcedony with olivine eyes.
A smooth Samoyed in translucent pale and dark grey chalcedony with rose diamond eyes.In 1899 Major Frederick G. Jackson presented the Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra) with Jacko, a Samoyed. Major Jackson had been leader of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition to Franz Josef Land in the Arctic between 1895 and 1898. This characterful portrait in chalcedony with rose diamond eyes almost certainly represents the famous dog.Text adapted from Fabergés Animals: A Royal Farm in Miniature
