the fancy link necklace designed as S shaped links supporting sixteen miniature Easter egg pendants comprising: a nephrite egg pendant, French assay marks, maker's mark EM, a rose quartz egg pendant, Russian 56 mark, a white guiloché enamel egg pendant, unmarked, a lapis lazuli egg pendant, Russian 56 mark, a carnelian egg pendant, unmarked, a chrysoprase egg pendant with gold Roccoco style scroll work decoration, unmarked, a gold and diamond set hinged locket egg pendant, Russian 56 mark, a gold acorn pendant, Russian 56 mark, maker's mark AH, possibly for August Hollstrom for Fabergé, traces of lilac enamel remaining, a rock crystal and ruby egg pendant, the engraved rock crystal egg encased with a bezel of circular-cut rubies, one ruby deficient, French assay mark to split ring, a silver egg pendant, engraved with a Spiders web, Russian 84 mark, maker's mark B2M, a blue guilloché enamel egg pendant, Russian 56 mark, maker's mark S, an aventurine quartz egg pendant, unmarked metal loop, a tourmaline egg pendant, Russian 56 mark, maker's mark AK, a tigers eye egg pendant, Russian 84 mark, maker's mark indistinct, a nephrite jade egg pendant, metal loop, and a blue glass and paste egg pendant, 53cm long

Provenance: The Dickinson family of St Petersburg, thence by descent to the vendor. See the previous lot, a Fabergé egg pendant, for further provenance details.

For an Imperial Porcelain Manufactory Easter Egg with the same provenance, see 'European Works of Art, Objects & Silver', Olympia Auctions, 21 November 2024, lot 16