Personal Treasures of the Tsars from the Peterhof State Museum, St. Petersburg
London: The Fan Museum, 1998. Pb. One hundred and twenty works of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian and Western European applied arts from Peterhof Palace Museum including over forty fans, constitute this exhibition at the Fan Museum in London. After the Winter Palace, Peterhof was the primary residence of the tsars in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and such items as lamps, clocks, vases, snuff boxes, writing implements (letter-opener, notebooks, inkwell), washing basins, goblets, purses, and parasols, used by the imperial family from day to day reveal the kind of domestic life they created. 82 pp., 8 1/4 x 11 7/8 ins., 124 color illus., pb., ENGLISH. Item #128
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