Lilies-of-the-Valley Basket by Fabergé
A selection of works by Fabergé from Matilda Geddings Gray's sumptuous collection is on long-term loan at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and comprises this exhibition. Objects originally commissioned by and created for the Romanov family, such as the Lilies-of-the-Valley Basket—the most important Fabergé work in a U. S. collection—and three magnificent Imperial Easter Eggs, are on view.
Yellow and green gold, silver, nephrite, pearl, rose-cut diamond
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
Lilies-of-the-Valley Basket by Fabergé
A selection of works by Fabergé from Matilda Geddings Gray's sumptuous collection is on long-term loan at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and comprises this exhibition. Objects originally commissioned by and created for the Romanov family, such as the Lilies-of-the-Valley Basket—the most important Fabergé work in a U. S. collection—and three magnificent Imperial Easter Eggs, are on view.
Yellow and green gold, silver, nephrite, pearl, rose-cut diamond
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