Description
Represented is the Indian rhinoceros, an animal found east of the Caspian Sea. Fabergé did not establish a hardstone studio until 1908, so this piece must have been produced outside the firm, perhaps in Karl Woerffel's lapidary (gem and precious stone) works in St. Petersburg or at the Haus Stern factory in Idar-Oberstein, Germany.











Rhinoceros
Conservation
Cleaned in preparation for exhibition.
Cleaned in preparation for exhibition.
Date | Description | Narrative |
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Treatment | Cleaned. | |
Examination | Cleaned. |
Exhibitions
- Fabergé. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris; Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 1993-1994.
- Objects of Vertu: Precious Works of the Eighteenth Century. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1984.
- Fabergé in America. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. 1996-1997.
- The Fabergé Menagerie. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; Portland Art Museum, Portland. 2003-2004.
- From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2014-2016.
- Fabergé and the Russian Crafts Tradition: An Empire's Legacy . The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2017-2018.
Provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1900, by purchase [from the factory]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1900
Creators
- House of Fabergé (Russian, est. 1842) (Manufacturer)
- Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920) (Other)
Period
ca. 1900Accession Number
27.480Measurements
H: 2 3/8 × W: 4 5/8 × D: 1 5/8 in. (6.1 × 11.8 × 4.2 cm)Geographies
- Russia, St. Petersburg (Place of Origin)