Cleveland Museum of Art

Miniature Compote

House of Fabergé

Date

1896

Medium

silver, aventurine quartz

Culture

Russia

Department

Decorative Art and Design

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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, and rock crystal found in the Ural Mountains of western Russia. Fabergé's designers often paired hardstones with silver mounts, particularly in the Moscow workshop where the silver studios were concentrated. Pink aventurine is the rarest form of this type of quartz, which is most commonly found in an olive green form.

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