Sugar tongs

ca. 1900

Designer: Peter Carl Fabergé (1846–1920)
Artist: Julius Alexandrovitch Rappoport (1864–1916)
Title: Sugar tongs
Date: ca. 1900
Place of Creation: Saint Petersburg
Object Type: Food
Medium: Sterling silver
Credit Line: Gift of Victoria Melita, Grand Duchess Kyril of Russia, through Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
Accession Number: 1945.364

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (de Young), September 26–December 13, 1998. “A Feast for the Eye: Food in Art,” no cat. no.
Cleveland Museum of Art, October 19–January 18, 2009; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Legion of Honor), February 7–May 31, 2009. "Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique," no. 92.
Miller, Carolyn, ed., The Art Lover’s Cookbook: A Feast for the Eye (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1998), repr. p. 130.
Ducamp. Emmanuel and Wilfried Ziesler, "Russia: Fabergé and His Competitors," in Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008), pp. 204–206, no. 92.

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