Fabergé
Ostrich c. 1900
Chalcedony, red gold, rose diamonds | 8.5 x 5.4 x 3.5 cm (whole object) | RCIN 40277
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Photographs of Fabergé’s design room on the top floor of his St Petersburg headquarters show a wide variety of wax models of animals and birds and some taxidermal studies used by the sculptors. This ostrich is carved from a single piece of variegated chalcedony and is fitted with red gold legs and rose diamond eyes.
Provenance
Probably acquired by Queen Alexandra; in the Royal Collection by 1953
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