ADAM'S Fine Jewellery & Ladies Watches 12th May 2026

TUESDAY 12 TH MAY 2026 . STARTING AT 4PM 54 40 A RARE & COLLECTIBLE 18TH CENTURY HARDSTONE AND GEM-SET CANE HANDLE The gold handle modelled as a stylised dolphin figure, from whose wide-open jaws emerges a carved agate Zamora leaning with both hands on a shell, with a stylised gold turban embellished with rose-cut diamonds and old cushion-shaped rubies, wearing similarly-cut ruby earrings and with emerald and ruby arm bracelets, dimensions approximately 10.5 x 8cm € 8,000 - 12,000 An almost identical cane handle is part of the permanent collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museum, housed in the ‘Armoury Chamber’. It was featured in the exhibition ‘France & Russia: Ten Centuries of Alliance’, at the Moscow Kremlin Museum in 2021. The catalogue entry reads: “This piece was among the items in the display case of Louis XVI’s reception room in the Winter Palace and belonged to the Imperial Family. The hilt was exhibited in 1904 at the Historical Exhibition of Works of Art, which took place in the Grand Exhibition Hall at Baron Stieglitz school in St. Petersburg, and was listed in the catalogue as ‘a pommel with a stone head of Zamora, formerly belonging to the Count and Countess de Dubarry.’ Subsequently, this information appeared in the inventory of the Armoury Cham- ber with a comment by museum director Dmitry Dmitrievich Ivanov: “As legend has it, it belonged to Countess du Barry” The work is dated according to the hallmark of the Paris Goldsmiths’ Guild. Paris, 1750-1751. See ‘France & Russia. Ten Centuries of Alliance’ exhibition book, pp. 354. Inventory No. is ДК (DK)-841.