Parasol Handle
(18th and 19th Centuries )
The highly polished, T-shaped, pale jadeite handle is fitted to an elaborate collar of white and apricot guilloché enamel over gold. Rows of rose-cut diamonds with inset half-pearls border the collar and divide the enameled areas. The handle is preserved in its original Fabergé box.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1900, by purchase; Mrs. Frederick B. Adams, [date of acquisition unknown] by gift; Walters Art Museum, June 1956, by gift.
Exhibitions
2017-2018 | Fabergé and the Russian Crafts Tradition: An Empire's Legacy . The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
2014-2016 | From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
2003-2004 | The Fabergé Menagerie. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; Portland Art Museum, Portland. |
1996-1997 | 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. |
1984 | The Taste of Maryland: Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
1984 | Objects of Vertu: Precious Works of the Eighteenth Century. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Russia, St. Petersburg (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 2 × Diam: 2 1/16 in. (5.1 × 5.2 cm); H with thread: 2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Frederick B. Adams, 1956
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
57.1862