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Buckle
Perkhin, Mikhail - Enlarge image
Buckle
- Place of origin:
St. Petersburg, Russia (made)
- Date:
1898-1903 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Perkhin, Mikhail (maker)
Fabergé (makers) - Materials and Techniques:
Gold, silver, enamel and pearls
- Credit Line:
Given by Ron and Mary Tarves
- Museum number:
M.8-2007
- Gallery location:
Jewellery, room 91, case 56, shelf 6
Fabergé is famous for the enamelled and jewelled objects he made for Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra. He took over his father’s business in St Petersburg in 1872 and later also conducted extensive business through a London branch. In 1900 he won a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition. Fabergé’s carved hardstone figures and the superb quality of his enamelling influenced even the great French jewellery houses.
Like many 19th-century goldsmiths, Fabergé often found inspiration in earlier styles, including archaeological jewellery, the Baroque court of early 18th-century Dresden and France in the age of Louis XVI . Sometimes he is indebted to Russian traditions, or to the East.
