Rectangular, centring the icon of a guardian angel, silver mounts enamelled in white, decorated with wirework scrolls, set with sapphires, garnets and emeralds at intervals, the wooden back with suspension loop, marked on lower mount; in the original Fabergé wooden case
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high

Acquired from Fabergé by the great-grandparents of the present owner prior to 1914.

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The great-great-grandfather of the present lot owned the jewellery shop L. Guériat in St Petersburg at 14 Morskaya street, next to Fabergé, and struck up a friendship with Carl Fabergé during the early 1900s. The present lot was either a gift from Carl Fabergé or purchased from the firm. The great-grandfather of the present lot left Russia and his jewellery business at the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and joined the French army.