{"data": {"id": 142768, "accession_number": "1966.472", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Bell Push, c. 1895\u20131915. House of Faberg\u00e9 (Russian, 1842\u20131918). Silver gilt, enamel, bowenite, cabochon sapphire; diameter: 3.5 x 5.8 cm (1 3/8 x 2 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The India Early Minshall Collection, 1966.472", "current_location": "211 Faberg\u00e9", "title": "Bell Push", "creation_date": "c. 1895\u20131915", "creation_date_earliest": 1890, "creation_date_latest": 1910, "artists_tags": ["gender unknown"], "culture": ["Russia, St. Petersburg"], "technique": "silver gilt, enamel, bowenite, cabochon sapphire", "support_materials": [], "department": "Decorative Art and Design", "collection": "Decorative Arts", "type": "Miscellaneous", "measurements": "Diameter: 3.5 x 5.8 cm (1 3/8 x 2 5/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"diameter": {"height": 0.035, "height_inch": 1, "height_inch_fraction": 0.375, "width": 0.058, "width_inch": 2, "width_inch_fraction": 0.3125}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "88; Faberg\u00e9 (in Cyrillic); another illegible mark.", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 301086, "title": "The India Early Minshall Collection: Faberge and his Contemporaries", "description": "<i>The India Early Minshall Collection: Faberge and his Contemporaries</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 15, 1967-January 21, 1968).", "opening_date": "1967-03-15T05:00:00"}, {"id": 301129, "title": "Year in Review: 1967", "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1967</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).", "opening_date": "1967-11-29T05:00:00"}, {"id": 208794, "title": "Faberg\u00e9 in America", "description": "<i>Faberg\u00e9 in America</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12-May 11, 1997).", "opening_date": "1996-02-12T00:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2/12/96-4/28/96); The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (5/25/96-7/28/96); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (8/24/96-11/2/96); New Orleans Museum of Art (12/7/96-2/8/97); The Cleveland Museum of Art (3/9/97-5/11/97).  \"Faberg\u00e9 in America,\" exh. cat. no. 15, p. 42; p. 30; color repr. p. 42.", "opening_date": "1996-02-12T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "India Early Minshall [1885\u20131965], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-1966", "sortorder": null}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1966-", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The advent of electricity in the 1880s made systems of buttons and bell pushes to call servants more efficient than the old lever and pully system within the wall that often broke with a vigorous tug.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This bell push sat on a dressing table in a wealthy household to summon a servant during the Gilded Age around 1900. Life \"below stairs\" wasn't as easy as movies and television have portrayed it. Servants could be summoned at all hours of the day and night, interrupting their work, and causing disruption at the whim of the wealthy owners or their guests. The House of Faberg\u00e9 became the most celebrated Russian supplier of such luxury goods as servant bell pushes. As court jeweler to the Russian imperial family, the Faberg\u00e9 firm created jewels and luxurious accessories both for the tsar and the Russian state as well as other European royalty and aristocrats.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60760670"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1966.472-bell-push"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Hawley, Henry H. <em>Faberge\u0301 and His Contemporaries: The India Early Minshall Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced:  pp. 82-3, cat. 40", "url": "https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/836254532"}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.472", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.472/1966.472_web.jpg", "width": "868", "height": "893", "filesize": "456897", "filename": "1966.472_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.472/1966.472_print.jpg", "width": "3303", "height": "3400", "filesize": "6092477", "filename": "1966.472_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.472/1966.472_full.tif", "width": "3377", "height": "3476", "filesize": "35250332", "filename": "1966.472_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.472/1966.472_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "1263", "height": "862", "filesize": "494103"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.472/1966.472_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2320", "filesize": "3510688"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.472/1966.472_alt0_full.tif", "width": "3686", "height": "2515", "filesize": "27843768"}, "date_created": "2008-06-06T19:15:27", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "The India Early Minshall Collection", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 142768, "creators": [{"id": 55332, "description": "House of Faberg\u00e9 (Russian, 1842\u20131918)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "maker", "biography": "Peter Carl Faberge (1846-1920) took over the House of Faberge in 1870 from his father Carl Gustav Faberge who had founded the firm in 1842. Until 1881, the firm manufactured primarily jewelry for Saint Petersburg's aristocrats and wealthy elite. In 1885 the firm was awarded the coveted imperial warrant as goldsmith to the tsar and began to produce elaborate presentation Easter eggs as a gift for the tsarina from her husband every year. They also produced luxurious accessories, jewelry, and hardstone sculptures. At one point, Faberge employed over 300 workers including 22 workmasters who oversaw the production of the firm's jewelry and precious objects. A branch of the firm opened in Moscow in 1887, specializing in neo-Russian and pan-Slavic motifs in jewelry, silver, and enamel. Other branches followed in Kiev, London, and Odessa as well as new premises in Saint Petersburg. At the onset of the Russian Revolution, Peter Carl Faberge fled the country to Paris then Switzerland, where he died in 1920. His firm was nationalized by the Bolsheviks in 1918.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1842", "death_year": "1918", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1}], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1966-11-05T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1890, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 1895\u20131915", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-29 07:20:14.320000"}}