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The art and science of Fabergé

From quartz to quince: Daisy Dunn on the art and science of Fabergé

20 November 2021

9:00 AM

20 November 2021

9:00 AM

After all the magnificent presents she’d received from his workshop, Queen Alexandra was eager to meet the most famous jeweller in Russia. ‘If Mr Fabergé ever comes to London,’ she said to Henry Bainbridge, a manager of the design house, ‘you must bring him to see me.’ Peter Carl Fabergé paid a rare visit to the capital to inspect his new shop — the only one located outside the Russian empire — at 48 Dover Street in 1908.

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