Jewellery, Watches, Silver and Objects of Vertu

A Russian miniature gold egg pendant, circa 1900, decorated with an enamel Union Jack on a guilloché white opalescent enamel ground, 56 standard, on small loop attached to a larger suspension loop, lengths 18mm. £600-£800

Purchased by the vendor from Messrs. Schaffer of A La Vieille Russie, 781 5th Avenue, New York on 12 September 1977.

Russian and Britain were allies in the Great War and eggs with the British flag were made by Fabergé and Russian goldsmiths in support of their alliance.





For a similar example see:
Christopher Forbes & Robyn Tromeur-Brenner, Fabergé, The Forbes Collection, pub. Hugh Lauter Levin Associates Inc, 1999, colour plate page 77.