
A gold mounted and jewelled nephrite compass
by Carl Fabergé,
the body carved from a single piece of translucent green nephrite,
the rotating painted white paper dial mounted on a gold spindle
and centred by a richly coloured blue cabochon sapphire in a
gadrooned gold mount, viewed through a panel of bevelled
rock crystal framed by finely chased green gold laurels
against a red gold ground.
Chief Workmaster: Michael Perchin,
St Petersburg, 1884-1896,
inventory number 51546.
4.8 cm in diameter
2.4 cm high

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