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Secret gift of stone simple – stone originally a work of art . But in the hands of a master ,
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animal-sculpture
IT IS KNOWN THAT Carl Faberge was passionately inter- ested in the natural world and in particular ornithology, which may account for the very large number of birds of all breeds produced by his sculptors. Photographs of his workshops show animal models of every type (including some wax models produced by his own sculptors),1 which his designers used as a resource for their work. Many of Faberge’s animals are so realistic that they must have been modelled from life, perhaps at the zoo in St Petersburg which had been established near the Peter and Paul Fortress in 1865. Faberge’s sculptors, like many of his artists, were for the most part trained at the Baron Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing in St Petersburg. The training was rig- orous and unhurried, students often studying for up to ten years. Several specialised in sculpting animals. These included Boris Frodman-Cluzel, whose particular skill in modelling horses was due to time spent working on mod- els for the Pavlosky Guards Regiment. Skurlov has suggested that Frodman-CluzePs attendance at the summer camps of the guards regiment in 1907 may have been in prepara- tion for the work that he would undertake later that year at Sandringham (see p. 22). His letters from June 1907, including one to his friend Olga Bazankur, reveal his fas- cination with the horse: ‘I want to sculpt an equestrian statuette and they [the regiment] have offered me a mar-vellous model in one of the cavalry regiments.’2 He was to go on to model the statuette of Persimmon as part of the Sandringham commission
Faberge’s
other animal sculptors included Malyshev and Ilinskaya, who produced animals and birds for the firm from 1910 onwards.
In addition to the natural world, Faberge was greatly interested in Japanese netsuke carving. He owned a large collection of netsuke, which was incorporated into the Her- mitage in 1917.3 The particular appeal of netsuke to Faberge will have been the densely carved style and minute attention to detail, which are directly replicated in some of his animal carvings. Some of them are based exactly on known netsuke types (see cat. 97 and 98). The main distinction was the mate- rials used: Japanese netsuke were usually carved from ivory, wood or bone, whereas Faberge used stones from the huge range of natural mineral resources in Russia
There was a long tradition of hardstone carving in Russia, particularly in Ekaterinburg, with which Carl Faberge would have been familiar. However, during his apprenticeship Faberge’s horizons were broadened not only by the objects he saw across Europe but also by the hard- stone carving he saw at Idar Oberstein in Germany (where he was later to have some of his own supplies cut at Stern’s workshops) and by thepietra dura workshops in Florence.
Much of Faberge’s hardstone was cut at Karl Woerffel’s workshop in St Petersburg, which Faberge later bought to ensure the quality of supply and production. The two most distinguished hardstone carvers in his employ were Derbyshev and Kremlev.