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| Keywords: House of Fabergé - Pair of Cockatoos - Walters 571913 - View A.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator House of Fabergé Perched on a T-shaped ivory stand is a pair of topaz cockatoos with ruby eyes and gold feet They are connected by gold chains to a pink enamel and gold mount set in a nephrite base supported by four gold ball feet Carl Fabergé was particularly fond of birds and kept a pet cockatoo early Other date century 20 topaz tourmaline rubies gold ivory enamel nephrite sapphires diamonds cm 10 16 accession number 57 1913 32058 Dr N Dorin Ischlondsky date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Dr N Dorin Ischlondsky 1961 Objects of Vertu Precious Works of the Eighteenth Century The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 The Fabergé Menagerie The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Columbus Museum of Art Columbus; Portland Art Museum Portland 2003-2004 place of origin St Petersburg Russia PD-old-auto 1920 Fabergé animal figurines Collections of the Walters Art Museum Sculptures of birds Topaz objects Tourmaline objects | ||||
