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"tombstone": "Imperial Barometer, 1900\u20131901. Johan Viktor Aarne (Finnish, 1863\u20131934), House of Faberg\u00e9 (Russian, 1842\u20131918). Palisander, silver gilt, ruby; overall: 14 x 12.5 cm (5 1/2 x 4 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The India Early Minshall Collection, 1966.484",
"current_location": "211 Faberg\u00e9",
"title": "Imperial Barometer",
"creation_date": "1900\u20131901",
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"department": "Decorative Art and Design",
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"type": "Miscellaneous",
"measurements": "Overall: 14 x 12.5 cm (5 1/2 x 4 15/16 in.)",
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"title": "The India Early Minshall Collection: Faberge and his Contemporaries",
"description": "The India Early Minshall Collection: Faberge and his Contemporaries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 15, 1967-January 21, 1968).",
"opening_date": "1967-03-15T05:00:00"
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"title": "Year in Review: 1967",
"description": "Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).",
"opening_date": "1967-11-29T05:00:00"
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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).",
"opening_date": "1996-02-12T00:00:00"
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"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. 74, p. 102; color repr. p. 102.",
"opening_date": "1996-02-12T00:00:00"
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/19/2008 - 1/18/2009) and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (2/7/2009 - 5/31/2009): \"Artistic Luxury: Faberg\u00e9 Tiffany Lalique\"",
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"description": "India Early Minshall [1885\u20131965], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"did_you_know": "This barometer was likely sold by the Soviet Union between 1934 and 1939 as part of a general selling off of former imperial possessions to raise money for the state treasury.",
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"description": "After obtaining the official warrant to supply objects for the imperial household and the Russian state in 1885, the House of Faberg\u00e9 became the shop of choice for members of the royal family when purchasing appropriate gifts for the tsar who had everything. Records of these purchases reveal that in 1901 the tsar's brother, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich (1878-1918), bought a barometer in the neoclassical style made from palisander wood just a few days before his brother's 33rd birthday. The description of that barometer matches the one now in this collection and is likely the same object.",
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"citation": "Hawley, Henry H. Faberge\u0301 and His Contemporaries: The India Early Minshall Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.",
"page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 48-9, cat. 20",
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"citation": "Habsburg, Ge\u0301za von and David Park Curry. Faberge\u0301 in America. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996.",
"page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 102, cat. 74",
"url": "https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/34433639"
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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.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 202, cat. 25",
"url": "https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/230187932"
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"citation": "Hurtt, James and Christel Ludewig McCanless. \"Faberg\u00e9 Barometer Imperial Provenance Discovered.\" Faberge Research Newsletter (Summer 2018). Accessed May 7, 2021.",
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"url": "https://fabergeresearch.com/newsletter-2018-summer/"
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