The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 24, 2024

Cigarette Case

Cigarette Case

c. 1915–1917
Location: not on view

Description

This silver cigar box is distinguished by the fluid, painterly quality of the wave-like pattern created in enamel—a hallmark of the House of Faberge's silver production in the pan-Slavic or neo-Russian taste. This style coincided with various Arts and Crafts movements underway in the late 19th–early 20th centuries in Western Europe and America that emphasized traditional craftsmanship and forms inspired by medieval and folk styles.
  • India E. Minshall, Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Hawley, Henry H. Fabergé and His Contemporaries: The India Early Minshall Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. mentioned & reproduced PP 94-5, cat. no. 45 library.clevelandart.org
  • Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).
    The India Early Minshall Collection: Faberge and his Contemporaries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 15, 1967-January 21, 1968).
  • {{cite web|title=Cigarette Case|url=false|author=House of Fabergé, Ivan Savelevich Britzin|year=c. 1915–1917|access-date=24 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1966.468