Peachy at The Met: Fabergé from the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection
Finally Peachy Deegan got to The Met! We missed it! And the best exhibit they have right now is the Fabergé from the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection! It may be Christmas season but we are thinking Easter and this collection has it all but the bunny! Great things come in small packages we always say, and these are simply exquisite and absolutely worth the trip. They are a little bit hard to find-you will find them on the first floor in the back left towards the court where you can have tea and not far from a gift stand. Each is done in such detail that will blow you away and the talent and meaning that each evokes on an individual basis you will fall in love with.
We can see why Matilda loved to collect them...
1. Three Imperial Eggs:
Imperial Danish Palaces Egg
Imperial Napoleonic Egg
Imperial Caucasus Egg
2, 3. Imperial Napoleonic Egg
Gold, guilloché enamel, rose-cut diamond, platinum, ivory, gouache, velvet, silk
House of Fabergé
Workmaster: Henrik Emanuel Wigström (Finnish, 1862–1923)
Miniaturist: Vassily Ivanovich Zuiev
Russian (Saint Petersburg), 1912
Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation (L.2011.66.57a–c)
4. Imperial Caucasus Egg
Yellow and quatre-couleur gold, silver, platinum, guilloché enamel, rose- and table-cut
diamond, pearl, crystal, ivory, watercolor
House of Fabergé
Workmaster: Michael Evlampievich Perchin (Russian, 1860–1903)
Miniaturist: Konstantin Yakovlevich Krijitski (Russian, 1859–1911)
Russian (Saint Petersburg), 1893
Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation (L.2011.66.51a, b)
5. Imperial Lilies-of-the-Valley Basket
Yellow and green gold, silver, nephrite, pearl, rose-cut diamond
House of Fabergé
Workmaster: August Wilhelm Holmström (Finnish, 1828–1903)
Inscribed (in Russian, at bottom): To Her Imperial Majesty, Czarina Alexandra
Feodorovna, from the ironworks management and dealers in the Siberian iron section of
the Nijegorodski Fair in the year 1896
Russian (Saint Petersburg), 1896
Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation (L.2011.66.56a)