Keywords: House of Fabergé - Pair of Parakeets - Walters 571912 - View A.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator House of Fabergé A pair of topaz parakeets with peridot eyes and gold feet is perched on a T-shaped ivory stand and connected by gold chains to the mount The cross bar of the stand terminates in cabochon sapphires The high rimmed purpurine feeding tray rests on a fluted gold base supported by six gold balls early Other date century 20 topaz ivory purpurine peridots sapphires gold 72 zolotnik cm 11 accession number 57 1912 34751 Dr N Dorin Ischlondsky date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Dr N Dorin Ischlondsky 1961 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 Topaz objects Sculptures of birds Peridot Sapphire Gold objects |