Minaudière
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.One side of the interior of this rare minaudière is a mirror with an ivory backing that hides a compartment for cigarettes. An adjoining compartment holds a moonstone-capped gold pencil. On the leaf opposite the cigarette compartment, the case is divided into two sections: the larger, fitted with a marabou puff, is for face powder, and the smaller is for rouge. This minaudière was regularly used by Matilda Geddings Gray.
[Wolfram Koeppe, 2011]
[Wolfram Koeppe, 2011]
Artwork Details
- Title: Minaudière
- Maker: House of Carl Fabergé
- Maker: Workmaster: August Frederick Hollming
- Date: 1908–17
- Culture: Russian, St. Petersburg
- Medium: Gold, silver, mauve guilloché enamel, mirror glass, ivory, cabochon moonstone
- Dimensions: Overall: 3 1/2 x 2 5/8 x 5/8 in. (8.9 x 6.7 x 1.6 cm)
- Classification: Metalwork-Gold and Platinum
- Credit Line: Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation
- Object Number: L.2011.66.2
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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