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| Keywords: House of Fabergé - Urn with Cover - Walters 57913 - Profile.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator House of Fabergé This tureen-shaped urn is carved of nephrite a green jade much favored by the Fabergé firm Enormous nephrite boulders had been discovered along the Onot River in eastern Siberia in 1851 A pair of loving doves in pavé-set diamonds and a cupid's bow and arrows in green and red gold--both motifs associated with the French 18th-century master François Boucher--are mounted on the urn's cover Suspended from alternating diamonds and rubies are yellow gold garlands with red gold ties Rows of diamonds interspersed at intervals with rubies line the rim of the urn This piece is of exceptional quality and may in fact be an imperial commission early Other date century 20 nephrite gold rubies diamonds cm 9 3 accession number 57 913 28720 Alexandre Polovtsoff Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov Paris by purchase Henry Walters Baltimore 1929-1930 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1929-1930 Objects of Vertu Precious Works of the Eighteenth Century The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 The Fabergé Menagerie The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Columbus Museum of Art Columbus; Portland Art Museum Portland 2003-2004 place of origin St Petersburg Russia PD-old-auto 1920 Fabergé tableware Collections of the Walters Art Museum Urns Nephrite objects | ||||
