About Clocks and Cigarette Cases
Fabergé made
dozens of different clocks over the years and
never reproduced any of them. Each was a totally
new design. Thinking about that, one wonders
how they reinvented this simple everyday object
so many times, making each more beautiful that
those that preceded it. That was true of everything
that was made by Faberge. They never duplicated
even one piece in their workshops, and
their stated object was to make each piece more
beautiful than the previous one...the
creative genius it took to manage this is simply
beyond imagination.
In the book The Golden
Years of Fabergé which
A La Vieille Russie caused to be
published and which presents the original
designs and drawings of Workmaster Henrik
Wigström, there
are page after page of designs for cigarette
cases, an object whose shape was predetermined
by its purpose, and yet, every single
design is completely different than all of
the others. It is to be noted that other workshops
also designed cigarette cases and those were
completely different as well.
The genius of Fabergé! I find myself
wondering what set of circumstances made it
possible for a man who came from an educated
but not extraordinary family to become one
of the creative artistic geniuses of all time.
What was he endowed with that most others are
not?
All of the gemstones used for
these pieces are hand carved.
All Fabergé works of
art will arrive in handsome Fabergé boxes
lined in fabric and embossed with the name Fabergé
and will be accompanied by appropriate documentation.
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