FABERGE, AN IMPORTANT IMPERIAL JEWELLED GOLD MOUNTED BOWENITE MODEL OF A FROG, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900 humoristically carved in the Japanese taste, modelled as a frog doing a handstand with its rear feet clasped together, its eyes set with large cabochon rubies and its mouth gold mounted and set with diamonds, modelled after a netsuke, apparently unmarked. Height 5.2cm (2 1/16 inches). Provenance - The property of The Russian Imperial Family. - With Popoff, Paris. - With Wartski by 1936. - Private UK Collection. - Acquired by the present owner. Literature - A. von Solodkoff, Faberge Juwelier des Zarenhofes, 1995, p. 23 (illustrated). - G. Munn, Wartski: The First Hundred and Fifty Years, 2015, p. 72 (illustrated). - Exhibition catalogue, Wilmington,Fabergé: Imperial Craftsmen and his World, 2000, p. 305 (illustrated). - Exhibition catalogue, Wartski, Japonisme: From Falize to Fabergé, 2011, p. 103 (listed), p. 107 (illustrated). Exhibited - London, 1 Belgrave Square, Exhibition of Russian Art, 4 June - 13 July 1935 (apparently) - Wilmington, Riverfront Arts Centre, Fabergé, Imperial Craftsman and his World, 14 August 2000 - 28 February 2001, no. 806. - London, Wartski, Japonisme: From Falize to Fabergé, 10 - 20 May 2011, no. 201. Footnotes For the only other similar model of a frog known, formerly in the collection of King George I of the Hellenes, see Christies, 24th & 25th January 2007, lot 372.