MINIATURE OF THE MONUMENT TO PETER THE GREAT
Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Workmaster) , Étienne Maurice Falconet (After)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
Statuette of Peter the Great in multi-colored golds is after Falconet's statue in front of the Admiralty. It stands on a polished emerald imitating the huge block of Finnish granite on which the original stands and its inscriptions. At base of emerald is an imitation of the stones of the original and around this is a gold and black enamel fence.
- Object name:
- MINIATURE OF THE MONUMENT TO PETER THE GREAT
- Made from:
- Gold -- emerald
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1899-1903
- Size:
- 3.5 × 5.1 cm (1 3/8 × 2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.61
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- MARK: bottom: kokoshnik to the left (assay mark of St. Petersburg 1899-1908); Ya.L for Yakov Lyapunov (St.Peterburg essayer in 1899-1903); 56 zolotnik for gold standard; Faberge in Cyrillic; MP in Cyrillic (initials of workmaster Mikhail Perkhin) [on bottom] MARK: kokoshnik left, Ya.L; fence: kokoshnik [on rim] SCRATCH: scratch mark 8875 [underneath] INSCRIPTION: To Peter the First / Catherine the Second, 1782 (in English and Latin) [on side]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973