An extraordinary desk seal by Carl Fabergé,

in the form of a stylised fish, the body bowenite mounted with a gold mouth,
gold eyes set with a cabochon garnet and a finely engraved matt gold tail, the
stem enamelled translucent red over a cross hatched guillochage and encircled
with a band of half pearls and a band of green gold laurels against a red gold
ground, the foot a stylised shell with curved wave like reeding, the
circular bowenite seal stone is uncut.

Chief Workmaster: Henrik Wigström,
St. Petersburg, 1908-1917,
56 zolotnik gold standard.

Height: 4.3 cm.

Exhibited:

Fabergé Hofjuwelier de Zaren,
at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung,
Munich, 1986-1987, number 192.

Fabergé-Cartier
at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung,
Munich, 2004, number 103.

Provenance:

HRH Thyra, Princess of Denmark, The Crown Princess of Hanover,
Duchess of Cumberland and Teviotdale,

HRH Princess Olga of Hanover and Cumberland, Princess of Great Britain
and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Ernest Augustus  IV Prince of Hanover, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick,

 HRH Monika, Princess of Hanover, Countess zu Solms-Laubach.