Details
Realistically carved as a standing elephant, with rose-cut diamond-set eyes, supporting a gold turret decorated with opaque white and red enamel, with a band of rose-cut diamonds, marked on mounts with workmaster’s initials
11⁄8 in. (3 cm.) wide
Provenance
Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich (1861-1929) and Countess Sophie of Merenberg, Countess de Torby (1868-1927).
By descent to Lady Zia Wernher (1892-1977).
By descent in the family.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Exhibition of Russian Art, London, 1935, p. 102, no. 524Z (listed).
A. K. Snowman, The Art of Carl Fabergé, London, 1962, no. 249 (illustrated).
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé, Munich, 1986, p. 201, no. 348 (illustrated).
Exhibited
London, 1 Belgrave Square, Exhibition of Russian Art, 4 June - 13 July 1935, no. 524Z.
Munich, Kunsthalle of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Fabergé, 5 December 1986 - 8 March 1987, no. 348.
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