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"title": "Miniature Chair",
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"inscription_translation": "\u041a \u0424\u0410\u0411\u0415\u0420\u0416\u0415 (C. Faberg\u00e9)\n\u041a.\u0424. (C.F.)",
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"title": "Faberge 1846 - 1920",
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"title": "Faberg\u00e9 in America",
"description": "Faberg\u00e9 in America. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (February 12-May 5, 1996); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (organizer) (May 25-July 28, 1996); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (August 24-November 2, 1996); New Orleans Museum of Art (December 7, 1996-February 8, 1997); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12-May 11, 1997).",
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"id": 194450,
"title": "Artistic Luxury: Faberg\u00e9 Tiffany Lalique ",
"description": "Artistic Luxury: Faberg\u00e9 Tiffany Lalique . 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).",
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"did_you_know": "This miniature chair has a clever mechanism that allows the seat cushion to slide forward and upward slightly so that it can be opened to reveal a compartment, probably used to hold stamps on a desk.",
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"description": "The giving of small precious objects as intimate gifts between family members within the imperial court was spurred by the House of Faberg\u00e9's seemingly endless supply of bejeweled utilitarian objects decorated as expensively as possible, such as this stamp holder disguised as an exquisite miniature chair in the Louis XVI taste of the late 1700s.",
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"citation": "\u201cBack Matter.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 3 (March 1967): 89.",
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"citation": "Habsburg, Ge\u0301za von, and David Park Curry. Faberge\u0301 in America. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996.",
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"citation": "Tillander-Godenhielm, Ulla. Golden Years of Faberge\u0301: Drawings and Objects from the Wigstro\u0308m Workshop. [Place of publication not identified]: A La Vieille Russie, 2000.",
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"url": "https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/43979547"
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"citation": "Tillander-Godenhielm, Ulla, and Peter Carl Faberge\u0301. Faberge\u0301: ja ha\u0308nen suomalaiset mestarinsa. Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtio\u0308 Tammi, 2008.",
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"citation": "Harrison, Stephen, Emmanuel Ducamp, and Jeannine J. Falino. Artistic Luxury: Faberge\u0301 Tiffany Lalique. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.",
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