Fabergé’s Animals: A Royal Farm in Miniature

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In 1907 King Edward VII and his consort, Queen Alexandra, commissioned Peter Carl Fabergé to create miniature hardstone carvings of all of the animals on their sprawling country estate at Sandringham in Norfolk. Domestic or wild, each and every creature used to be to be rendered in hardstone adorned with rose diamonds, emeralds, and rubies by the prestigious Russian goldsmith and jeweler, whose name used to be already synonymous internationally with opulence and grandeur.

Fabergé’s Animals takes the reader on a dazzling tour of the Sandringham commission—the most important choice of Fabergé’s hardstone animal carvings in existence. The book brings the magic of this miniature menagerie to life with photographs, sketches, and other documentary subject matter—some never before seen—from both the Russian and royal archives. Together with a historical introduction to the royal patronage at the back of the commission, this stunning volume includes information on Fabergé’s workshops and carvers, and the materials and special techniques they employed.

With more than 150 lavish full-color photographs—many newly commissioned—Fabergé’s Animals is a resplendently beautiful book.


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