Peter carl faberge furniture

TO SURVEY ANY COMPREHENSIVE selection of the decorative objects produced by the House of Fabergé between 1870 and 1915 is to become enraptured with a veritable wonderland of elfin-miniature creations of dazzling brilliance and opulence.

Here are to be found, in lavish profusion, varicolored alloys of gold, as well as precious and semi-precious gems combined with enamels and glazes in a facile diversity of techniques to produce a rich spectrum of subtle translucent colors.

The House of Fabergé was founded at St.

Petersburg, Russia, in 1842 by Gustav Fabergé, and had acquired only a modest prestige as a fashionable manufacturer of expensive but conventional jewelry when Peter Carl Fabergé, eldest son of Gustav Fabergé, succeeded his father as director of the firm in 1870.

Almost immediately upon assuming management Carl Fabergé decided on a momentous change of policy: to abandon the manufacture of ordinary