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Lot 8273

Red Jasper and Gemstone Carving of a Russian Peasant Woman

4 December 2005, 11:00 PST
Los Angeles

US$5,000 - US$7,000

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Red Jasper and Gemstone Carving of a Russian Peasant Woman

By Alfred Zimmerman
Idar-Oberstein, Germany

An apprentice of Gerd Dreher, Alfred Zimmerman carved this piece while working in Dreher’s atelier. Also known for working in the Fabergé tradition, Zimmerman utilizes either soldiers, peasants in folkloric attire as subject matter. The present character study depicts a Ukrainian woman in a simple peasant costume. Her scarf and dress are carved of solid red jasper, her undergarments of white agate, her shoes and ill-fitted stockings of brown jasper. Her expressionless face is captured through the use of translucent beige-colored chalcedony. She stands on a polished, oval Russian nephrite base. Signed with monogram AZ for Alfred Zimmerman. Height 6 ½ in.

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See Plate 44 in Fabergé in America, exhibition catalogue for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Géza von Habsburg, 1996.

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