FABERGE, AN IMPORTANT JEWELLED CHALCEDONY MODEL OF A POUTER PIGEON, ST PETERSBURG CIRCA 1900 naturalistically carved to depict a standing pouter pigeon, set to the eyes with circular cabochon rubies, apparently unsigned. Height 5.7cm (2.25 inches). Provenance - The property of Lady Juliet Duff (1881-1965), née Lowther. - With Wartski until October 1989. - The property of Harry Woolf. - Acquired by the present owner from Christie's London, 29 November 2021 (GBP £112,500). Literature - H.C. Bainbridge, Peter Carl Fabergé, London, 1949, pl. 76 (illustrated). - Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé from Private Collections, London, 1992, no. 113 (illustrated). - Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller, St Petersburg, 1993, p. 292, no. 161 (illustrated). - A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé, Juwelier des Zarenhofes, Heidelberg, 1995, p. 64, no. 20 (illustrated). - Exhibition catalogue, Carl Fabergé, Goldsmith to the Tsar, Stockholm, 1997, p. 115, no. 54 (illustrated). - G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 308, no. 825 (illustrated). - Exhibition catalogue, Carl Fabergé. A Private Collection, London, 2012, pp. 40-41, no. 31 (illustrated). Exhibited - London, Wartski, Fabergé from Private Collections, 2 - 15 December 1992, no. 113. - St Petersburg, Hermitage State Museum; Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller, June 1993 - April 1994, no. 161. - Hamburg, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Fabergé, Juweilier des Zarenhofes, 12 April - 25 June 1995, no. 20. - Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Carl Fabergé, Goldsmith to the Tsar, 6 - 19 October 1997, no. 54. - London, Spencer House, Fabergé from Private Collections - An exhibition on behalf of Music in Country Churches, 8 December 1998, no. 25. - Wilmington, Riverfront Arts Centre, Fabergé, Imperial Craftsman and his World, 14 August 2000 - 28 February 2001, no. 825. - London, Wartski, Carl Fabergé. A Private Collection, 15 - 25 May 2012, no. 31.