An Imperial gem set gold mounted coprolite
charka by Carl Fabergé,

the bowl is made from corprolite - fossilized dinasour dung,
from the Greek kopros meaning dung and lithikos
meaning stone - mounted with a chased gold handle
set with two cabochon sapphires in the form
of a stylised toucan, sitting on a red gold base.

Purchased from Fabergé by the Tsarevitch George
Alexandrovitch on 6th December1896 for 100 roubles

Chief Workmaster: Erik Kollin,
St. Petersburg, circa 1896,
inventory number 52184.

Diameter: 5.2 cm