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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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)

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