{"data": {"id": 142772, "accession_number": "1966.476", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Clock, c. 1905\u201315. Henrik Wigstr\u00f6m (Russian, 1862\u20131923), House of Faberg\u00e9 (Russian, 1842\u20131918). Rhodonite, silver, enamel, diamonds; overall: 5.3 x 5 x 2.9 cm (2 1/16 x 1 15/16 x 1 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The India Early Minshall Collection, 1966.476", "current_location": "211 Faberg\u00e9", "title": "Clock", "creation_date": "c. 1905\u201315", "creation_date_earliest": 1905, "creation_date_latest": 1915, "artists_tags": ["male", "gender unknown"], "culture": ["Russia, St. Petersburg"], "technique": "rhodonite, silver, enamel, diamonds", "support_materials": [], "department": "Decorative Art and Design", "collection": "Decorative Arts", "type": "Timepiece", "measurements": "Overall: 5.3 x 5 x 2.9 cm (2 1/16 x 1 15/16 x 1 1/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.053, "height_inch": 2, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0625, "width": 0.05, "width_inch": 1, "width_inch_fraction": 0.9375, "depth": 0.029, "depth_inch": 1, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.125}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "88, Kokoshnik, lower-case alpha in script [assay mark for St. Petersburg, 1882-99]; H.W. [initials for workmaster Henrik Wigstr\u00f6m]; Faberg\u00e9 (in Cyrillic); 26217 scratched; swan. Faberg\u00e9 in script on dial of clock; an abbreviation of \"weekly wind\" engraved in Cyrillic script on back.", "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": 309667, "title": "Circa 1930", "description": "<i>Circa 1930</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 12-October 31, 1983).", "opening_date": "1983-04-12T05:00:00"}, {"id": 194450, "title": "Artistic Luxury: Faberg\u00e9 Tiffany Lalique ", "description": "<i>Artistic Luxury: Faberg\u00e9 Tiffany Lalique </i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2008-January 18, 2009); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (February 7-May 31, 2009).", "opening_date": "2008-10-19T04:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "India Early Minshall [1885\u20131965], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1966", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1966-", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The bright pink color of this small desk clock is a result of manganese, the principle mineral found in rhodonite.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The use of Russian hardstones in creating precious objects became a hallmark of design from the House of Faberg\u00e9. Easily carved, these minerals were sourced largely from the western region surrounding the Ural Mountains. Faberg\u00e9's workmasters used colorful stones such as agate, nephrite (jade), lapis lazuli, rock crystal, and rhodonite, seen here in this small desk clock, to create and embellish flower studies, animal figures, and all manner of luxurious accessories. Bright pink rhodonite was among the rarest, and consequently most expensive, specimens used by the House of Faberg\u00e9.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": [], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1966.476-clock"]}, "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: p. 38, cat. 15; reproduced: p. 39", "url": "https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/836254532"}, {"citation": "Harrison, Stephen, Emmanuel Ducamp, and Jeannine J. Falino. <em>Artistic Luxury: Faberge\u0301 Tiffany Lalique.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 39, cat. 49", "url": "https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/230187932"}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.476", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.476/1966.476_web.jpg", "width": "1013", "height": "893", "filesize": "444399", "filename": "1966.476_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.476/1966.476_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2996", "filesize": "4870024", "filename": "1966.476_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.476/1966.476_full.tif", "width": "4515", "height": "3978", "filesize": "53918892", "filename": "1966.476_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.476/1966.476_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "979", "height": "893", "filesize": "408753"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.476/1966.476_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3101", "filesize": "5042736"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.476/1966.476_alt0_full.tif", "width": "3699", "height": "3374", "filesize": "37476124"}, "date_created": "2008-06-06T15:34:26", "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.476/1966.476_alt1_web.jpg", "width": "1116", "height": "893", "filesize": "348904"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.476/1966.476_alt1_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2720", "filesize": "3287562"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.476/1966.476_alt1_full.tif", "width": "4586", "height": "3669", "filesize": "50499876"}, "date_created": "2007-08-09T19:22:10", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "The India Early Minshall Collection", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 142772, "creators": [{"id": 8891, "description": "Henrik Wigstr\u00f6m (Russian, 1862\u20131923)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "workmaster", "biography": "Workmaster for the House of Faberge based in St. Petersburg, Russia. 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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. 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