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Fabergé Eggs, A Retrospective Encyclopidia
Golden Years of Fabergé
Lowes & McCanless,
2001
Tillander-Godenhielm,
2001

Eggs

Scholars have identified four categories of Fabergé eggs purchased by and given to members of the Russian Imperial family and other wealthy individuals at the turn of the 20th century. Extensive details for these eggs are enumerated in these resources:

Lowes, Will and Christel Ludewig McCanless. Fabergé Eggs: A Retrospective Encyclopedia, 2001. Monograph gives comprehensive information about 66 Fabergé eggs divided into four categories - Tsar Imperial, Imperial, Kelch and Other. Technical descriptions, all known public exhibitions and auctions through 1997, and reference citations (books, journals, newspapers, and miscellaneous sources) covering the literature of nine countries are given for each egg. Who's Who in the House of Fabergé profiles 500 artisans and companies who worked for or with Fabergé.

Fabergé, Tatiana, Lynette Proler and Valentin Skurlov. The Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs, 1997. Letters written by Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II, Fabergé invoices, cabinet documents and Bolshevik inventories are the basis for new research by Valentin V. Skurlov of St. Petersburg and his co-authors. This information sheds new light on the history of the Fabergé eggs.

Multi-lingual website maintained in the Netherlands includes the four categories of known Fabergé eggs.

Interesting publications about the various Fabergé collections in museums include:

  • Baltimore, Maryland. The Walters Art Museum
    Johnston, William R. William and Henry Walters, The Reticent Collectors, 1999.

  • Cleveland, Ohio. The Cleveland Museum of Art
    Hawley, Henry. Fabergé and His Contemporaries: The India Early Minshall Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.

  • Moscow, Russia. The Armoury Museum
    Muntian, Tatiana N. Fabergé Easter Gifts, 2003.

  • Moscow, Russia. The Fersman Mineralogical Museum
    Marianna Chistyakova tells the story of the 1917 Blue Constellation Egg in the Russian journal, Antikvariat "Antiques and Collecting" No. 10 (31), October 2005, 20, 22-3.

  • New Orleans, Louisiana. The New Orleans Museum of Art
    Keefe, John Webster. Masterpieces of Fabergé: The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection, 1993. (This collection has moved to Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, TN, until 2012)
  • Richmond, Virginia. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
    Curry, David Park. Fabergé: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1995.

  • Washington, District of Columbia. Hillwood Museum and Gardens
    Odom, Anne and Liana Paredes Arend. A Taste for Splendor: Russian Imperial and European Treasures from the Hillwood Museum, 1998.

Note: The Royal Collection of Queen Elizabeth II (de Guitaut, Caroline. Fabergé in the Royal Collection, 2003) and the Link of Times Foundation Fabergé Collection (von Habsburg, Géza. Fabergé: Treasures of Imperial Russia, 2004) are only shown from time to time during temporary exhibitions.

Selected Fabergé Bibliography (1930 to the present)

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