The McFerrin Collection. A Remarkable Array of Fabergé

Dec 18, 2013

We would all love to awake to a Fabergé egg under the tree on Christmas morning, but in the meantime this catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition Fabergé: A Brilliant Vision, at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, might just be the next best thing for all jewellery lovers!

Fabergé, Tatiana, Dorothy McFerrin, et al: From a Snowflake to an Iceberg: The McFerrin Collection. A Remarkable Array of Fabergé.New York: 2013. 288 pages, illustrated throughout in colour. Hardback. 24 x 29cms.

The catalogue of one of the world's most significant private Fabergé collections, among whose highlights are the Nobel Ice Egg, the Empress Josephine Tiara, and the ornate Fire Screen Frame, a gift from Tsar Nicholas II to his mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. Includes a plethora of imperial presentation boxes, cigarette and vesta cases, jewellery, hardstone animals, enamelled eggs, desk clocks, and scent bottles, along with other artworks, all fully reproduced with dimensions and provenance. Essays discuss gift giving in the House of Romanov, the Bismarck Box, and Fabergé's marks, workmasters, and use of gems.£ 145.00