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carved from black obsidian (a volcanic glass) with delicately foiled rose cut diamonds eyes, the stone carefully chosen for its flashes of silk which mirror the texture of a short haired dog.
Length: 4cm
Height: 4cm (at the head)
An almost identical model in orange coloured aventurine quartz belongs to Her Majesty The Queen and is illustrated in Fabergé’s Animals: A Royal Farm in Miniature on page 54.