Circular, the carved aventurine quartz body with a gold mount, enameled in translucent green over a dash guilloché ground and engraved with pink gold ribbon ties at intervals, marked on mount with workmaster’s initials
2³⁄₄ in. (7 cm.) diameter

Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928), purchased from the St Petersburg branch of Fabergé on 31 December 1906 for 110 roubles.
With Wartski, London.
The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York.

Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé from The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, 1973, p. 96, no. 45 (illustrated).
H. Waterfield, C. Forbes, Fabergé Imperial Eggs and Other Fantasies, New York, 1978, p. 100, no. 130 (illustrated).
A. von Solodkoff, Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé, New York, 1984, p. 178 (illustrated).
G. von Habsburg, Fabergé in America, New York, 1996, p. 272, no. 295 (illustrated).

New York, The New York Cultural Center, Fabergé from The Forbes Magazine Collection, 11 April – 22 May, 1973, no. 45.
San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fabergé in America, May 25 - July 28, 1996, no. 295.

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