The Museum of Natural History in Houston, Texas, has been presenting the exhibition Fabergé: A Brilliant Vision since February 2013 (for a minimum of three months). The McFerrin collection is unveiled to the public for the first time, with over 350 spectacular pieces including Empress Josephine’s breathtaking diamond tiara. The McFerrin collection is one of the most impressive private collections of Fabergé pieces to date. Tatiana Fabergé, great-granddaughter of Peter Carl Fabergé and founding member of the Fabergé Heritage Council, is one of the experts invited to comment on the heritage and legacy of the House of Fabergé.
This exhibition presents a collection of historic decorative objects designed by Peter Carl Fabergé in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the aristocracy and nobility of Imperial Russia. It includes the famous ‘Snowflake Egg’ made for Emanuel Nobel and the sumptuous ‘Egg with Diamond Trellis’, as well as enamelled frames such as the ‘Fire Screen Frame’, a gift from Tsar Nicholas II to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. Clocks, gold cigarette cases, stones cut into animals or flowers – everything that still evokes the same admiration and fascination today as when these pieces were first displayed in the store windows of St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Fabergé perpetuates its legend by continuing to create the most extraordinary jewelry treasures in its contemporary collections.
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