Featured Odd enamel egg pendant with gunner or canon inside and stand. Married?

I liked this and was surprised to find the canon guy inside. Anyone know anything about this? I think it’s older Do you think the stand was married to it?
Thank you for any help. I tried pic searches and google with key words and got nothing except for bazillion dollar fabrege eggs, I wish!!!

 

That's St. Michael on the outside. The stones around the top are rhinestones. Beyond that... dunno.

 

I think you missed the dragon, Ruth. That's St. George, isn't it?

 

didn't we have a thread about eggs.?

 

There are many Faberge-inspired eggs in the market. The guy is a copy of this https://www.invaluable.com/auction-...-with-a-gold-soldier-firing--348-c-5fd4e2a9af

 

It is a beauty, gauntlett. I believe the dark red cabochons vary slightly in tone, which means they could be natural garnets, a stone used a lot in Russia.
I wonder if it was made to commemorate a war or battle. Maybe from a series of pendant replicas of a bigger egg.

Obviously the egg is a pendant, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be displayed on a stand. The stand does look like it could be by the same maker.
How does the egg sit in the stand if you have the stand the other way around, on the ring with the pointy things up? To me it looks like that would be the right way up.

 

How neat is that. I like it.

 

Are there any marks? I don't think it's Faberge. The pendant on the link I posted commemorates either Russian - Japanese war 1905-06, or WWI. Yours might be just a more generic reference.
This egg, for example, goes on the same website as Faberge-inspired
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-...an-enameled-egg-trinket-box-215b-c-1da48bcb96
They are not exact copies, rather made in style and gathering elements from various Faberge production.

 

I agree, it isn't Fabergé quality, but it could be a copy of a Fabergé egg.

The pendant and stand look like they could fit in that time frame, imo.

 

Other half bought me a couple of nice copies of Faberge eggs in Moscow. There's a fair few souvenir copies out there, old and new.

 

You can buy those copies here as well, also ones by the new Fabergé. Most are not as nice as this one though.

 

Nice thing! I have a little mini egg pendant too, mine doesn’t open though. It’s gotta be silver at least? Too nice not to be. Looks like some letters or numbers on the jump ring? You would guess .840.

 

Not if it's Russian. I have one of those paper pasted on wood icons of St Michael and he's shown slaying a dragon - it's in Revelation. Why they made an archangel a Saint I haven't a clue.

 

St. George is on the Moscow coat of arms...



~Cheryl

 

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/russian-icon-st-michael-slaying-1909473181

 

That looks like st George to me, but maybe @April07 can read the names on the icon for us.

 

The writing on the icon says Άγιος Γεώργιος - St. George.

 

Thanks, April.

 

Four or five years ago an exhibit of Fabergé pieces made the rounds of the Museums here in the US. I went and the gift shop was filled with eggs of all sizes and designs. I don't remember seeing this one but I wonder if it dates from that time frame.

 

I’ll look it over again for marks. I’ll post a pic with the pointy things up. That’s how u originally suspected it went but then I overthought it. Lol. I thought it might of had some real age to it. If I ever find my presidium, I’ll test the red stones. I bought it thinking it was some purity of silver. I just hate to scratch nicer items.
I’ll get back to ya this afternoon or evening