| The House of Fabergé had
always produced works in Sterling Silver, but
in the last part of the nineteenth century
Sterling Silver enjoyed a renaissance in Russia
and the Moscow workrooms of Fabergé did
increasingly more in Sterling Silver. They
expanded it from elaborate tea
services, vases, candelabra and other tabletop
objects such as desktop necessities to include
many objets d'art taken from nature among which
were wild animals.
From "Fabergé and The Russian
Master Goldsmiths" by Hill, Smorodinova
and Ulyanova, there is a quotation which expresses
perfectly the thoughts of these experts:
"The silver sculptures and vessels produced
by the firm were distinguished by the fine
quality of their casting and chasing and their
originality of conception. Figures in the Historical
Museum's
(Fabergé) collection are remarkable
for the lovely modeling of their forms and
the way the texture of the 'skin' and
even the characters of the animals are expressed."
It is important to note that all of the silver
pieces produced by Fabergé were hand
made and are, today, still hand made.
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