Urn with Cover

early 20th century

9.8 cm 9.5 cm 6.2 cm

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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 re...

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Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929-1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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