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Collection

A openwork diamond mounted brooch by Carl Fabergé

St Petersburg, 1913

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of oval form, centred with a brilliant-cut diamond from which radiate diamond-set openwork elements surrounded by a trail of laurel leaves and a diamond-set border. The fra,e pf the jewel has been intricately pierced, allowing the trail of laurel leaves to appear to float within the borders.

Chief jeweller: Albert Holmström

A record of the completed jewel in this form survives in the albums of Albert Holmström dated 1st November, 1913.

Illustrated

See no.252 (pgs 91 and 94) of ‘Fabergé and the Russian Jewellers: A Loan Exhibition’ (Wartski, 2006).

See no. 164 (pg 161) of ‘From Function to Fantasy, The Brooch: 1200 BCE to the contemporary’ (Wartski, 2025).