Anteater

ca. 1900

8.7 cm 3 cm 2.1 cm

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This tiny diamond-eyed anteater was purchased by Henry Walters, founder of the Walters Art Museum, on a trip to St. Petersburg in 1900. The House of Fabergé began making hardstone animals in the 1890s and they proved popular with their elite clients. Queen Alexandra (wife of t...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1900, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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