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| Keywords: House of Fabergé - Rhinoceros - Walters 27480 - Profile.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator House of Fabergé Represented is the Indian rhinoceros an animal found east of the Caspian Sea Fabergé did not establish a hardstone studio until 1908 so this piece must have been produced outside the firm perhaps in Karl Woerffel's lapidary gem and precious stone works in St Petersburg or at the Haus Stern factory in Idar-Oberstein Germany ca 1900 spotted red jasper cm 6 1 11 8 accession number 27 480 21055 Henry Walters city Baltimore from the factory Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1900 Objects of Vertu Precious Works of the Eighteenth Century The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 Fabergé in America The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco San Francisco; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond; New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans; The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland 1996-1997 The Fabergé Menagerie The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Columbus Museum of Art Columbus; Portland Art Museum Portland 2003-2004 place of origin St Petersburg Russia PD-old-auto 1920 Fabergé animal figurines Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Collections of the Walters Art Museum Rhinoceroses in art Lapidary | ||||
