
Faberge
The Hodges Family Collection
John Webster Keefe(Author)
Wanda O'Shello(Editor)
New Orleans Museum of Art,U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 22. September 2009
Book
Hardback
310 pages
978-0-89494-108-5 (ISBN)
Description
This full-color catalog covers the extraordinary range of objects produced by the great Russian self-described ""artist-jeweler"" Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). Smoker's accessories, photograph frames, clocks, desk pieces, boxes, cases, cabinet objects, jewels and costume accessories, table silver, hardstone animals, flowers, and Easter eggs appear in lustrous full-color photographs. All of these pictured are part of the Hodges Family Collection of masterworks by Fabergé, which is the first significant American group of Fabergé works assembled in decades. The Hodges Collection's inclusion of work by all of the workmasters and outside suppliers of the Fabergé firm further raises its significance. The collection is on extended loan to the New Orleans Museum of Art.Written by the museum's curator of decorative arts and recognized Fabergé authority, John Webster Keefe, the book includes valuable essays by collector Daniel L. Hodges; by preeminent Fabergé scholar Dr. Géza von Habsburg discussing the astonishing rise of the Fabergé market; by Kieran McCarthy, specialist in Fabergé's work in wood; and by prominent Fabergé bibliographer Christel L. McCanless. A chronology for the House of Fabergé from 1814 to 2007 is also included. Each piece in the Hodges Family Collection is illustrated in color and accompanied by a full description, an essay on its place in the Fabergé oeuvre, its relevant history, its provenance, and its specific bibliography.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Orleans
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 229 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89494-108-5 (9780894941085)
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Persons
John Webster Keefe is a well-known author in the art history field, particularly on the work of Fabergé. He has published papers in Arts Quarterly and has worked with the New Orleans Museum of Art on art from many other jewelers as well.