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Spring Flowers Egg
Cat. no. 209
Workmaster: Mikhail Perkhin (1860-1903)
St. Petersburg, 1886-96
Gold, platinum, enamel, diamonds, bowenite, chalcedony, demantoids, wood
The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York

The shell opens to reveal a miniature bouquet of wood anemones in a platinum basket. Presnted by Czar Alexander III to his wife, Czarina Maria Feodorovna.

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