Showing Faberge's Animals: A Royal Farm in Miniature by Caroline de Guitaut

Faberge's Animals In 1907 King Edward VII and his consort, Queen Alexandra, commissioned Peter Carl Faberge to create miniature hardstone carvings of all the animals on their sprawling country estate at Sandringham in Norfolk. Domestic or wild, each creature was to be rendered in hardstone adorned with rose diamonds, emeralds, and rubies by the celebrated Russian goldsmith and jeweler, whose name was already synony... Full description