
Daria Khristova nee Chernenko
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Provenance
Caroline, Lady Oppenheimer (1899-1971)
Then by direct descent
The carving of the owl and the choice of stone suggests production by a close contemporary of Fabergé's. An obsidian owl in the collection of Lillian Thomas Pratt and housed in its original Fabergé box resembles a carving by Denisov-Uralsky for an owl supplied to Cartier in 1911 (see G. von Habsburg, Fabergé Revealed, VMFA 2011, p. 208) underlining the variety of outlets for similar forms in the early 1900s. A labradorite owl from Lady de Grey, Marchioness of Ripon and descendent of Countess Catherine Woronzova, is illustrated in Bainbridge, London, plate 76.