The outstanding legacy of the Russian goldsmith and jeweler Carl Faberge has captured the public's imagination for many years. During his lifetime, Faberge's extravagant jewelry and "objects d'art" brought him patronage from the world's most affluent people, and throughout this century his work has been avidly collected by public art institutions and individuals. Published to accompany a travelling exhibition organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, this text is dedicated to the works that have been amassed by American collectors. Spanning almost half a century, this work combines bibliographical accounts of the most important American Faberge clients and collectors with photographs of the treasures. Following a brief background history of the House of Faberge, the first section of the book is devoted to the period before World War I. The second part covers the years between 1930 and 1950 when the first great American collections were formed, including those of Matilda Geddings Gray, India Early Minshall, Lillian Thomas Pratt and Marjorie Merriweather Post. A final section looks at those formed between 1950 and the present day, with particular emphasis on Malcolm S. Forbes, who built up what is undoubtedly the biggest and most impressive Faberge collection in the world.
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Public fascination with Peter Carl Faberge, master jeweler to Czar Nicholas II, has grown steadily in recent years as a result of several important exhibitions of his art objects and an ever-expanding body of literature documenting his works. This latest contribution is the catalog of an exhibition that is to travel to several U.S. museums during the next year. Von Habsburg (former president of Christie's European auction house and author of Faberge: Imperial Jeweler, LJ 5/15/94) approaches the subject by examining American collections formed over the last century. The opening chapter briefly describes the House of Faberge. Subsequent chapters document individual collections, separating those formed before World War I (while the artist was still alive and his clientele included many wealthy Americans) from those assembled after the 1917 revolution. Superb illustrations of items as diverse as cigarette cases and icon covers?coupled with historical data and the provenance of each object shown?make this book a valuable addition to both art- and history-oriented libraries.?Margarete Gross, Chicago P.L.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The book is really great. It shows a comprehensive collection of the Fabergé items present in the private collections in USA. The conditions of the book itself was not as good as expected, given the clasification of "Very Good"...
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