some Impressions of my vistit at the art-fair TEFAF 2023 in Maastricht:
Sazikov
Fedor Rückert
Carl Fabergé
A Royal broch/pendant by Carl Fabergé, c. 1906
Gold, diamat, and chrysoprase, 3.6 x 6 cm (1.4 x 2.4 in.)
St. Petersburg
Provenance:
Her Majesty Queen Olga of Greece, daughter of Grand Duke Constantin Nicholaevich of Russia, consort of Gerorge I of Greece (brother of Empress Marie Fedorovna and Queen Alexandra).
Workmaster: Albert Holmström
Inventory number: 78974/8.
Henrik Wigström - Хенрик Вигстром
Henrik Wigström was born in Finland and started his career working as an apprentice to the local jeweller and goldsmith Peter Madsen. Thanks to Madsen’s business contacts in Russia, Wigström managed to move to St. Petersburg where he started working for the House of Fabergé in 1886 as an assistant to Michael Perkhin, head workmaster until 1903. After his master’s death Wigström was appointed his successor.
He was responsible for some of the firm’s finest treasures in Louis XVI and neoclassical style. Wigström was very prolific: half of the Imperial Fabergé eggs, the majority of miniature animals and flowers, boxes and cigarette cases produced by the firm between 1904 and 1917 carry his mark.
In 1918 the outbreak of the Russian Revolution forced the closure of the House of Fabergé and Henrik Wigström fled back to Finland where he died in 1923.
Source: Pushkin Antiques
Talashkino Bowl, Carl Fabergé, 1896-1908
the circular earthenware bowl glazed in the pre-Peterine taste in tones of ochre and deep blue to the exterior and duck egg blue glaze to the interior, incised with the cypher ‘MT’ for Princess Maria Tenisheva beneath, encircled by an elaborate openwork silver mount by Fabergé decorated with arches and raised stylised flower roundels in the Slavic taste.
Moscow workshops, 1896-1908.
14.5 cm in diameter
5.2 cm high
Princess Maria Tenisheva was one the most important cultural and artistic figures in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russia. She founded art schools, supported artists; sponsored the magazine Mir iskusstva (which gave name to the miriskusniki movement), was a discerning collector and patron, wrote a dissertation on enamel work, collaborated with Diaghilev in his ballet productions and played Tchaikovsky’s music with the composer himself. Vrubel, Repin, Korovin and Serov all painted her portraits and Trubetskoy sculpted her. Her most celebrated achievement was Talashkino, near Smolensk, an artistic estate focusing on the decorative arts which she established in 1893. In its workshops, traditional Slavic crafts and techniques were taught and revived. On very rare occasions these were incorporated into works of art by the Imperial goldsmith Carl Fabergé.
Following the Bolshevik revolution the Princess moved to France with her friend Ekaterina Sviatopolk-Chetvertinskaia. She died in Paris on 14th April 1928; in her obituary Ivan Bilibin wrote: “Her whole life was dedicated to the native Russian art, and she has done infinitely much for it”
Source: Wartski
Regards
Siverstone