Fabergé rediscovered / Wilfried Zeisler

Object Details

Notes

CHM copy Purchased from the Cooper Hewitt Library Endowment.

Contents

Foreword / Kate Markert -- Acknowledgments / Wilfried Zeisler -- Introduction / Wilfried Zeisler -- Carl Fabergé, a nineteenth-century jeweler and businessman -- Fabergé workshops and branches -- Miniature portraiture and photography in Fabergé's works / Jennifer Levy -- Clientele and objects -- Empress Alexandra's presentation snuffboxes / Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm -- The Twelve monograms egg's missing surprise identified / Anna and Vincent Palmade -- Majorie Merriweather Post, collector of Fabergé -- Elevation of the True Cross icon / Galina Korneva and Tatiana Cheboksarova -- Directory of workmasters, designers, and firms -- Fabergé at Hillwood

Summary

The firm of Fabergé, jeweller to the Russian court, was founded in St. Petersburg in 1842. Expanded by the founder's son, Peter Carl Fabergé (1846?1920), the firm became one of the most famous jewellers of the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Major American collectors, such as Marjorie Merriweather Post, played a significant role in Fabergé's fame after the fall of the imperial regime, and her mansion at Hillwood in Washington, DC now has a collection that includes two imperial Easter eggs, silver, jewellery, hardstone, and religious items. With new photography, exquisite works of art and illuminating focus spreads by Fabergé experts, this new volume presents the firm in the broader history of nineteenth to twentieth century jewellery and goldsmithing, and documents new attributions and provenances. Exhibition: Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens, Washington DC, USA (09.06.-31.12.2018).

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

2018

host institution

Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens (Washington, D.C.)

author

Zeisler, Wilfried

Subject

Fabergé, Peter Carl 1846-1920

Post, Marjorie Merriweather Art collections

Fabergé (Firm)

Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens (Washington, D.C.)

Type

Exhibitions

Exhibition catalogs

Physical description

224 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Place

Russia

Washington (D.C.)

Topic

Jewelry

Art objects, Russian

Art objects--Private collections

Record ID

siris_sil_1095271

Usage

CC0