the handle an aquamarine, its domed hexagonal shape paying homage to the stone’s original hexagonal crystal system, held in a gold sleeve of openwork laurel leaves panels, above a tapering circular gold mount enamelled translucent pink over a finely engraved ground, the agate seal stone uncut.

Chief Workmaster: Henrik Wigström,
St. Petersburg, circa 1913,
inventory number: 11172.

4.8 cm tall.

Provenance:

Acquired from Fabergé’s London branch, 9th July 1913, for £11 ,10s by Baron Robert de Rothschild, who was pained by de László in 1911 (Image credit: de Laszlo Catalogue Raisonne).

Described in Fabergé’s ledgers as, ‘Seal, aqua + pink en’