#bell push

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fabergé bell push with guilloché enamel, seed pearls, & amethyst push button

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... dragons are everywhere ...

Art Nouveau bell push, c 1900, Barcelona, Spain

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For #TurtleTuesday:

Turtle Bell Push, c. 1895–1915, House of Fabergé, Russia, St. Petersburg. Agate, gold, silver, diamonds, rubies, 2.6 x 7.7 x 6.1 cm. Cleveland Museum of Art.

“To summon the butler, a quick push on the turtle's head would ring the bell downstairs.”

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Agate Turtle Bell Push, House of Fabergé, Russia, 19th century 

Cleveland Art Museum

Provenance: India Early Minshall Fabergé Collection

Agate, gold, silver, diamonds, rubies

2.6 x 7.7 x 6.1 cm (1 x 3 1/16 x 2 3/8 in.)

The House of Fabergé (Дом Фаберже) is a jewellery firm founded in 1842 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, by Gustav Faberge. The firm was famous for designing elaborate jewel-encrusted Fabergé eggs for the Russian Tsars, and for a range of other work of high quality and intricate detail.

Agate is characterized by its fineness of grain and variety of color. The stone was given its name by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shore line of the river Achates ( Ἀχάτης) in Sicily, sometime between the 4th and 3rd centuries CE.

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Faberge bell push bought by the Tsar's sister Grand Duchess Xenia, later owned by King George I of Greece

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FABERGÉ Karl (Carl), 1846-1920 (Russia) Bell-Push. Silver-Gilt and Guilloché Enamel                

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bell pushes

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“Circular bell push of pale blue guilloché enamel with pink moonstone button within a ring of pearls. Three-colour gold and silver gilt mounts of trailing laurel branches and rosettes on the top and stiff leaf border at base, all on three ball feet. Mark of Henrik Wigström.”