Faberge and the Russian Master Goldsmiths - Hardcover

Faberge, Peter Carl; Hill, Gerard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0883638894 ISBN 13: 9780883638897

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, 1989

Synopsis

Cloth. Fine/Fine. 320 pp. with nearly 300 full color photographs.

About this title

About the Author:

Gerard Hill is director of Russian Art for Sotheby’s, New York. G. G. Smorodinova and B. L. Ulyanova are curators at the Historical Museum in Moscow.

From Publishers Weekly:

The renowned Easter eggs made by Peter Carl Faberge for the czars of Russia lead off this cavalcade of treasures, captured in 277 color plates and two informative essays. Russia's master goldsmiths and jewelers created marvels in clocks, tableware, scent bottles, opera glasses. They fashioned religious icons and chalices drawing on age-old traditions, and innovated forms in carved hardstone flowers or stone figurines. Objects such as cigarette cases have a distinctively Russian feel, while a striking naturalism was achieved in animal carvings of a hippopotamus or a frog. In their opening essay, Smorodinova and Ulyanova, curators at Moscow's Historical Museum, offer a thorough survey of this art and discuss pioneers such as Faberge, Pavel Ovchinnokov and Ivan Khlebnikov. Hill, curator of Russian art for Sotheby's, New York, briefly reviews Faberge's life and artistic sources.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0883638894
• ISBN 13: 9780883638897
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Hill Gerard