A study of a rabbit, naturalistically carved from white agate with pink colouring in a crouched position with alert upright ears and diamond-set eyes; the natural striation of the stone is used to emulate variations in the texture of fur and the animal’s colouring; the model is contained in its original silk and velvet lined fitted holly wood case, the inside lid stamped ‘Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa’ beneath the Imperial Warrant.
Russian Hardstone Model of a Rabbit
Fabergéreference number: FB_012
circa 1910
agate, diamonds
length: 4.7 cm
in original wooden case
the interior of the lid stamped ‘Fabergé, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa’ beneath the Imperial Warrant