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Miniature Teapot
Michael Perkhin1886–96
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The House of Fabergé specialized in the creation of little treasures intended as opulent personal gifts. In creating luxurious accessories for a desk or tabletop, Fabergé often used native hardstones such as multicolored agate and quartz, green nephrite, pink rhodonite, rock crystal, and pale green bowenite found in the Ural Mountains of western Russia. Fabergé's designers often paired hardstones with gold mounts, particularly in the St. Petersburg workshop where the goldsmiths were concentrated.
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- Title: Miniature Teapot
- Creator: Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Russian, 1860–1903), House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918)
- Date Created: 1886–96
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 5.8 x 10.9 cm (2 5/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
- Provenance: India Early Minshall [1885–1965], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Type: Miscellaneous
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.479
- Medium: gold, bowenite
- Inscriptions: Impressed marks: 56, crossed anchors [assay mark for St. Petersburg, 1882-96]; initials of workmaster Mikhail Perkhin (in Cyrillic); Fabergé (in Cyrillic), Scratched: 47274
- Fun Fact: Sometimes called "new jade," bowenite is actually considered a semiprecious gemstone. Though Fabergé obtained his supply from the Ural Mountains of Russia, bowenite is also the state mineral of Rhode Island.
- Department: Decorative Art and Design
- Culture: Russia, St. Petersburg
- Credit Line: The India Early Minshall Collection
- Collection: Decorative Arts
- Accession Number: 1966.479
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