🌺Carl Faberge and his exquisite stone flowers (31)

 🌺Carl Faberge and his exquisite stone flowers
Carl Faberge is famous for creating incredibly beautiful Easter eggs. But the jeweler made not only them.
In the collection you can find amazingly beautiful flowers created from minerals.
Fabergé's interest in making flowers arose soon after one day an exceptionally beautiful bouquet of chrysanthemums made in China was brought to the workshop for restoration. Faberge was delighted with the work of Chinese craftsmen, got the idea to create his own “herbarium” and soon, together with his craftsmen, began creating stone flowers.
For these purposes, Faberge used a palette of a wide variety of minerals. He was the first to appreciate the variety of colors of gems and began working with them, learned to change their natural color in order to achieve the required shade, knew how to give any color to gold, and boldly combined noble and not so noble materials in his products.
The designers of the House of Faberge repeatedly repeated rose hips, lilies of the valley, raspberries, and dandelions. Vases were almost always made of rock crystal, the transparency of which created the illusion of a vessel filled with water. The stems are often gold, with special engraving. The leaves are jade, delicately carved or enamel. Flowers were usually not branded - they were too fragile. There was no mark on the Faberge platinum either.
Faberge did not welcome pure copying from life; he believed that products should be unique.
Faberge did not attach much importance to the cost of products, because above all else, Carl Faberge valued the idea, artistic imagination and skill of jewelers and virtuoso stone-cutters.
Nor did he feel much reverence for expensive materials. If he didn’t like the finished product, if it didn’t have the charm that he ultimately wanted to see, Faberge could break it without regret.
The great master possessed many secrets, which jewelers still cannot unravel.
The largest collection of stone flowers by Faberge is now in the ownership of the English crown: 26 works out of 80 produced.









Pansies.
Faberge firm
Master G. Wigstrom
Rock crystal, diamonds, glass, bone, gold.

Hidden inside it is a special miniature mechanism that is activated when you press a tiny button. The petals of the flower open, and portraits of all the children of the imperial family appear inside it. Nicholas II presented this flower to his wife on their tenth wedding anniversary.

Faberge flowers
Dandelion in a vase. K. Faberge
1914-1917

Looking at this dandelion, you get the complete feeling that this fragile creature has just been carefully picked and placed in water. And the master managed to stop the moment...

The most amazing thing about this flower is that at the ends of its silver stamens, real dandelion fluff is attached in a completely incomprehensible way. Moreover, there are also small diamonds scattered on top, which, under certain lighting, sparkle like drops of dew.

Even biologists were called in to examine the fluff, and they reliably established that it was real, and the age of the fluff corresponded to the date of creation of this masterpiece - about a hundred years. How Faberge managed to secure the weightless fluffs and ensure their safety is completely unclear...




Basket with lilies of the valley
Faberge firm
Master August Holström
1896
Gold, silver, jade, pearl, diamond













Carl Gustavovich Faberge




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