Fabergé - Museet på Koldinghus, Denmark - Until 25-9-2016

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Fabergé - Museet på Koldinghus, Denmark - Until 25-9-2016

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Museet på Koldinghus
Koldinghus 1
6000 Kolding
Denmark

Fabergé – The Tsar’s Jeweller and the Connections to the Danish Royal Family

Until 25th September 2016

This is the first time, the Fabergé objects belonging to the Danish royal family have been on display side by side in a single exhibition.

Carl Fabergé (1846-1920) was court jeweller to the Russian tsar and best known for the extravagant, diamond-encrusted Easter eggs he created for the tsar and his family from 1885 until the Russian revolution in 1917.

Fabergé’s first imperial egg was inspired by an older gold egg, a gift from the Russian tsar to his Danish-born wife, Empress Dagmar.

The exhibition at Koldinghus presents 100 items borrowed from members of the Danish royal family, who have inherited numerous Fabergé objects via their family ties to the Russian tsar. The exhibits include bejewelled eggs, letter openers and large champagne coolers but none of the imperial eggs. The exhibits have only rarely been put on public display, because they are in private ownership and are still used by the members of the Danish royal family.

The Fabergé workshop turned out many other types of objects besides the famous Easter eggs. Fabergé captured contemporary tastes, and with his sense of detail, his inventiveness and his ingenious creativity, he was able to turn royal and imperial living rooms into magnificent treasure troves. Cigarette lighters featured tiny nature-like deer’s hooves and ribbons of diamonds and rubies, while picture frames for family photographs
were adorned with silver and gold foliage and colourful enamelwork.

Fabergé was not the only supplier of fine arts objects and jewellery to the court of the Russian tsar and other princely houses in Europe. Jewellery houses outside Russia, such as Cartier, satisfied another contemporary trend, which focused on the more subtle elegance of the French tradition. In the exhibition, the small and large Fabergé objects that are in the possession of the Danish royal family today are thus presented alongside works with a royal or imperial provenance that were created by Russian masters such as Ovchinnikov and Khlebnikov and the French jewellery house Cartier.

The exhibition falls into three sections. One focuses on Fabergé’s jeweller’s art, featuring utilitarian objects and works of art, including little boxes, cigarette cases and pen trays decorated with precious and semi-precious gemstones and gold-mounted rubies and diamonds. The second section presents large official works by Fabergé presented to members of the Danish royal family in connection with coronations, anniversaries or royal weddings. This includes a large gilt champagne cooler, a gold wedding anniversary for King Christian IX and Queen Louise in 1892, that was also in use a hundred years later at the silver wedding anniversary of Denmark’s current royal couple. The third section focuses on close relations and private gifts, such as jewellery and picture frames. With a family photo, the frames made a highly personal gift for storing shared memories. An introductory film and an animated genealogical table tells the story of the close personal ties between the two families, and visitors can mount their own portrait or a family photo in a Fabergé frame.

The exhibits are kindly lent to the exhibition by H.M. Queen Margrethe II, H.R.H. Prince Henrik, H.R.H. Princess Benedikte, H.M. Queen Anne-Marie, H.H. Princess Elisabeth, Count Ingolf and Countess Sussie of Rosenborg, Det Kongelige Løsørefideikommis, Den Kongelige Livgardes Officerskorps Fond, The Royal Danish Collection Amalienborg and The Cartier Collection.

Opening hours: Daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m

Admission: 90 DKK + 30 DKK

http://www.koldinghus.dk/uk/exhibitions ... berge.html
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