Lot 53: A RARE FABERGÉ DIAMOND-SET CARVED RHODONITE, VARI-COLOR GOLD, AND ENAMEL PARASOL HANDLE, WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1904-1908

A RARE FABERGÉ DIAMOND-SET CARVED RHODONITE, VARI-COLOR GOLD, AND ENAMEL PARASOL HANDLE, WORKMASTER HENRIK WIGSTRÖM, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1904-1908 the handle formed as a carved rhodonite horse head resembling the knight in a game of chess, with flattened ears, hogged mane, flared nostrils, and with rose diamond eyes, the collar within vari-color gold laurel bands and enameled translucent oyster over a wavy guilloché ground marked with workmaster's initials and 56 standard height 2 5/8 in. (excluding screw) 6.7 cm

Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm, et al, Golden Years of Fabergé: Drawings and Objects from the Wigström Workshop, Graulhet, 2000, p. 74.

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