A GROUP OF FIVE GREEK GOLD AND GEM-MOUNTED HARDSTONE EGGS MARK OF VOURAKIS, ATHENS, 20TH CENTURY

Comprising a green aventurine example with a varicolored gold two-handled mount set with four cabochon rubies, an amethyst example with gold mounts, a rhodonite example with gold mounts set with a band of sapphires and a band of rubies, and two small examples in malachite and amethyst, each in gold mount set with rubies, all in original fitted Vourakis cases, three marked VOURAKIS and with standard mark; two with standard mark only
41⁄4 in. (10.8 cm.) high, the green aventurine example

Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 10 May 1983, lots 271-274.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 26 October 2007, lot 41.