Carnelian 18k Gold Egg Cufflinks by Marie Betteley

Fine pair of hand-carved egg-shaped carnelian cufflinks based on a Russian design from 1880 by the Fabergé workmaster, Erik Kollin. The well-matched orange carnelian links recall the highest quality Russian indigenous stone used in Fabergé animal carvings. Each egg is attached to a carnelian bar link by a small handmade 18k gold chain.

Length of egg link is approximately .5 in. (1.3 cm.); chain, .75 in. (1.9 cm.), 7.9 grams gr. wt.

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For a similar cufflinks in nephrite and lapis lazuli in our shop see Ref. nos. GJN049N and GJN049LC.

$1,650.00

SKU: GJN049C

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Tsar Nicholas II received a pair of egg-shaped cufflinks for Easter 1902 from Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, which he later recorded in gouache in his personal journal (image), see The Jewel Album of Tsar Nicholas II, London, 1997, no. 233.

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