![]() It is underwriting the traveling exhibition.Ĭontributors of essays to the exhibition catalogue include David Park Curry, curator of American arts at the Virginia Museum, and Christopher Forbes, vice president of Forbes magazine.įaberge was considered a leader of Russia’s artistic revival, working in a range of styles from the antique to Art Nouveau. The jewelry firm he created survives as the Faberge Company and is the owner of the Faberge trademark. They opened branches in Moscow in 1887 and in London in 1903. He and his brother, Agathon, were chosen as suppliers and appraisers to the imperial court. Petersburg, the son of jeweler Gustave Faberge. The exhibition will be a tribute to the French goldsmith Peter Carl, who was born in St. The last section of the forthcoming exhibition will show forgeries, made by jewelers anxious to cash in on the astronomical prices now paid for genuine Faberge works. The collection is now owned by Forbes’ son Steve. Its best-known objects are its “Coronation Egg” of 1897 and its “Lillies of the Valley Egg” of 1898. In the Merriweather Post collection is an elaborate clock that once belonged to the Dowager Empress Marie of Russia.īut the largest and finest collection of Faberge in the world was amassed from 1950 to 1980 by Malcolm S. (Armand Hammer later became a major oil importer).Īnother early collector was Matilda Geddings Gray of New Orleans, who bought more than 50, including the “Lillies of the Valley Basket” of 1896, which was Czarina Alexandra’s favorite Faberge object.Īnother early collector was cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, who lived in Russia for 18 months in the 1930s with her husband, Joseph E. As the word-of-mouth market for the rare jewels spread in the United States, the brothers Armand and Victor Hammer brought many to New York and sold them. Then came Consuelo Vanderbilt (later Duchess of Marlboro) and J.P. Walters of Baltimore’s Walters Gallery, who visited Faberge’s St. Meanwhile, other wealthy Americans were buying Faberge treasures.
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