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Box with Miniature: Two Swans, Study

Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920) (Artist)
Style of Fedor Ivanovich Rückert (Russian, 1840-1917) (Workmaster)
1908-1917
silver gilding, painted filigree and en plein enamel
(18th and 19th Centuries )

In this scene, Two Swans, Study (1905), a couple wearing medieval dress and holding hands stroll beside a pond in a wooded landscape. The two swans, which gave the original painting its title, are not represented.* Framing the miniature are what appear to be stage curtains in olive hung against a dark blue ground. The remainder of the box has finely executed filigree decoration with shaded enamel in dark blue, light blue, and brown. A similar box is in the collection in the Hillwood Museum and Gardens, Washington, D.C.

Inscription

[Symbols] On base: kokoshnik right, delta, 88; [Marks] In Cyrillic: Fabergé with Imperial warrant; [Marks] Inside lid in Cyrillic: K. Fabergé with Imperial warrant, 88

Provenance
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Jean M. Riddell, Washington, D.C. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2010, by bequest.

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
Treatment Cleaned
1/1/1900 Treatment Cleaned
9/27/2011 Examination examined for exhibition
9/27/2011 Examination Examined
9/27/2011 Examination The box was made by the company Faberge between 1908-1917. The picture, a copy of a painting, is executed in a matte painted enamel. The remainder of the box is decorated in cloisonne enamel. Filigree wires form the cells. The palette for the enamel on the top of the lid follows the colors in the painting. The enamel on the sides is more colorful and bright. The box is in excellent condition.
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Geographies

Russia, Moscow (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 15/16 × W: 2 5/8 × D: 1 3/4 in. (2.4 × 6.6 × 4.4 cm)

Credit Line

Bequest of Mrs. Jean M. Riddell, 2010

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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44.926

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