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Lot 120

Sale 5214 - The Art of Gathering
Dec 7, 2023 11:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$500 - 800
Price Realized
$693
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

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A group of five sterling silver, silver gilt, enamel, and semiprecious eggs, various makers, 20th century

Comprising an Elizabeth II gilt-washed sterling silver surprise egg, Stuart Devlin, London, 1967, the interior revealing daisy with faceted amethyst to center, with gilt bee on spring above, marked to underside; a silver gilt, cloisonné, and guilloché enamel egg, bearing Russian ФР marks and 88 zolotniki mark; a sterling silver-mounted glass egg, surmounted by trumpeting elf, by James Schwabe (1918-2008) for Patrice, New York, NY, marked “Patrice/ Ster” and signed “J. Schwabe” to underside; a Portoro marble egg and a Breccia marble sphere, by Cartier (French, founded 1847), Paris, both marked “Cartier”; and an enamel-decorated egg with squirrels and nesting birds among tree branches, inscribed, “Easter 1975,” by Halcyon Days, Bilston and Battersea Enamels, England, marked to interior; accompanied by four gilt metal egg rings. 

H: 2 ½ in. W: 2 in. (largest), Weight: 4.22 oz. t. (Stuart Devlin egg only)

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