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Frames

Updated: Apr 29

Frame

Russian

19th-20th century

Wood, silver-gilt, glass, leather, iron, hanging hook

47.20.412



Frame

FABERGÉ FIRM

Russian 1899-1908

Silver, enamel, plastic, glass

47.20.355


This silver frame is the first Fabergé object acquired by Lillian Pratt. The crowned signatures (in Russian Cyrillic letters) of those pictured, Tsar Nicholas II’s aunt and uncle, appear to the sides of this original photograph. The frame’s top edge is surmounted by a crowned enamel coat of arms of the city of Moscow. The dates (1891–1904) engraved below the photograph refer to the fourteenth anniversary of Sergei’s governorship of Moscow.


The staunchly conservative Grand Duke Sergei was assassinated by a revolutionist in 1905. After his death, Elizabeth Feodorovna took holy vows and founded a convent dedicated to helping Moscow’s poor and needy. The grand duchess, who was also the sister of the tsar’s wife, was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918 on the same day that the imperial family suffered a similar fate.



Frame

FABERGÉ FIRM

Russian, 1842—1917

Workmaster MIKHAIL PERKHIN

Frame, before 1899

Silver-gilt, enamel, glass, ivory

Photographs of Tsar Nicholas II and his children

47.20.350



Frame

FABERGÉ

Russian, 1842—1917

Frame, 1908—17

Gold, enamel, pearls, ivory, glass

Photograph of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna

47.20.343



Frame

FABERGÉ FIRM

Russian, 1842-1917

Workmaster VIKTOR

Frame, 1896-1908

Silver-gilt, enamel, wood, glass

Photograph of Tsar Alexander II

47.20.308


Frame

FABERGÉ FIRM

Russian, 1842-1917

Frame, before 1899

Gold, enamel, ivory, glass

Photograph of a panel of Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna

47.20.318


Frame

FABERGÉ FIRM

Russian, 1842-1917

Workmaster MIKHAIL PERKHIN

Frame, 1899-1903

Silver-gilt, enamel, pearls, ivory, glass

Photograph of Tsar Nicholas II

47.20.313



Frame

FABERGÉ FIRM

Russian, 1842-1917

Workmaster MIKHAIL PERKHIN

Frame, before 1899

Gold, enamel, pearls, ivory, glass

Photograph of Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevic

47.20.321



Frame

FABERGÉ FIRM

Russian, 1842-1917

Workmaster HENRIK WIGSTRÖM

Frame, 1899-1908

Gold, silver-gilt, enamel, rubies, pearls, glass, ivory

Engraving of Empress Catherine the Great

47.20.344



Frame

FABERGÉ FIRM

Russian, 1842-1917

Workmaster MIKHAIL PERKY-IIN

Frame, before 1899

Silver-gilt, enamel, pearls, rock crystal, ivory

Photograph of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarevich

Alexei Nikolaevich

47.20.309



Frame

FABERGÉ FIRM

Russian, 1842-1917

Workmaster HENRIK WIGSTRÖM

Frame, 1899-1908

Gold, enamel, pearls, silver-gilt, glass, ivory

Photograph of Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich

47.20.336



Frame

FABERGÉ FIRM

Russian, 1842-1917

Frame, 1899-1917

Gold, platinum, enamel, celluloid, glass, watercolor on ivory

Portrait of Queen Alexandra of Great Bn

47.20.359



Frame

ABERGÉ FIRM

Russian, 1842-1917

Workmaster ANDERS NEVALAINEN

Frame, 1899—1908

Silver, gold, enamel, glass, wood, watercolor on ivory

Portrait of Empress Maria Aleksandrovøza

47.20.346



Frame

Workmaster Mikhail Perkhin

Russian

Before 1899

Gold, enamel, silver, diamonds, glass, ivory

47.20.349



Frame

Frame (Primary Title)

Russian

1899-1908

Silver-gilt, enamel, holly, glass

47.20.413



Frame

ALEXANDER TREYDEN

Frame, before 1899

Gold, enamel, ivory, glass

Photograph of Tsar Nicholas II

47.20.329



Star-Shaped Frame

FABERGÉ FIRM

Russian, 1842-1917

Workmaster MIKHAIL PERKHIN

Star Frame, before 1899

Gold, silver, enamel, pearls, glass, celluloid

Original photograph of Grand Duchess

Tatiana Nikolaevna

47.20352


This star-shaped frame was purchased by Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, in 1896. It was among their personal possessions at their death. After the execution of the imperial family in 1918, the commandant of the Soviet soldiers who had guarded them in Ekaterinburg created an inventory of their belongings. In this document, the frame is described as “gold frame, star-shaped with white and yellow enamel.” The frame was made while Mikhail Perkhin was the chief supervisor, or workmaster, of Fabergé’s many specialized workshops. Under Perkhin’s direction, the firm created snuffboxes, cigarette cases, fans, card cases, parasol and cane handles, picture frames, and countless other small decorative objects, often in lush enamel colors.



Frame

Russian

1899-1908

Nephrite, gold, silver, silver-gilt, pearls, rubies, glass, mother-of-pearl

47.20.354




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