Exhibitions
Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, Riverfront Arts Center, Wilmington, Delaware, 9 Sept 2000 – 18 Feb 2001, No. 45
Bibliography
G. von Habsburg, A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, no. 45, p. 68, illustrated in colour
Silver and champlevé enamel cigar case with the polychrome decoration imitating peasant embroidery. In the late 1870’s and throughout the 1880’s, porcelain painters, silversmiths and enamellers were inspired by folk motifs transmitted through the publication of Fyodor Solntsev’s Antiquities of the Russian State published in the 1850’s.
Andrei Stepanovich Bragin – Russian silversmith, active from 1852. In 1888 he became an owner of a workshop at Spassky lane no. 4 in St.Petersburg employing 25 craftsmen in 1897. Examples of his work are in the collection of the State Historical Museum in Moscow.
