Fabergé's Animals: A Royal Farm in Miniature - Hardcover

Caroline De Guitaut

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905686129 ISBN 13: 9781905686124

Publisher: Royal Collection Trust, 2010

Synopsis

In 1907 King Edward VII and his consort, Queen Alexandra, commissioned the Imperial Russian jeweller Carl Fabergé to create an entire diminutive carved menagerie of all the animals on their country estate at Sandringham in Norfolk. The result was the largest group of Fabergé’s hardstone animal carvings in existence. This book is the first to explore the complete history of this unique commission. It includes stunning close-up photography of the carvings themselves, plus contextual material from both the Russian and the Royal Archives, some of which has never been published before. It gives an introduction to the history of royal patronage of Fabergé, and concludes with information on his workshops, carvers, and a glossary of specialist terms. This is the first time the ‘Sandringham Commission’ has been studied in its entirety, and this book is an important addition to works on the great Russian master.

About this title

About the Author:

Caroline de Guitaut is Assistant Curator of the Queen s Works of Art and Assistant to the Director of the Royal Collection."

About this edition

• Publisher: Royal Collection Trust
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1905686129
• ISBN 13: 9781905686124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120