Details
The mottled brown hardstone carved as a horse's head set with a diamond eye and teeth, the banded gold mounts with thumbpiece set with diamonds, rubies, and emeralds, marked on cover and flange with Dutch tax mark 1893-1953, the flange further marked twice with French import mark post 1893
234 in. (7 cm.) high
Provenance
Baron de Redé and Baron Guy de Rothschild, vente de meubles et objets d'art de l'Hôtel Lambert et du Château de Ferrières; Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 May 1975, lot 23.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 27 May 2004, lot 122.
Acquired from S. J. Phillips Ltd., London, 2004.
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