Caroline de Guitaut (Author)
ISBN 978 1 905686 12 4
Hardback, 200 x 200mm, 120 pages, over 140 colour illustrations
In 1907 King Edward VII and his consort, Queen Alexandra, commissioned the Russian jeweller Carl Fabergé to create an entire diminutive carved menagerie of all the animals on their country estate at Sandringham in Norfolk. The result is the largest group of Fabergé's charming hardstone animal carvings in existence. Fabergé's Animals is the first book to explore the complete history of this unique commission. It includes stunning close-up photography of the carvings themselves, plus contextual material from both the Russian and the Royal Archives, some of which has never been published before. It gives an introduction to the history of the royal patronage of Fabergé, and contains information on his workshops and carvers, as well as a glossary of specialist terms.
This is the first time the 'Sandringham Commission' has been studied in its entirety, and this book is an important addition to works on the great Russian master.
Caroline de Guitaut is an Assistant Curator and Loans Officer at the Royal Collection, and author of Fabergé in the Royal Collection (2003).
