Design drawing

Peter Carl Fabergé

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This design drawing and its accompanying silver-gilt and glass vase (2014.698.2) is one of a very few examples that represent the collaboration between Louis C. Tiffany and Tiffany & Co. in New York, Edouard Colonna in Paris, and the workshops of Fabergé in St. Petersburg, Russia. This beautifully rendered watercolor depicting a blue vase and silver-gilt mounts in the form of snakes, bears the signature of Carl Fabergé. Tiffany glass with Fabergé mounts are very rare, and this exquisite example is especially unique in that the watercolor and vase survive together.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art