Feminist Fabergé?

Philip Theodor Ringe was a silversmith, jeweler and a Fabergé workmaster. He was born in #Riga in Livonia, #Latvia in 1824. #Faberge trusted #PhilipTheodorRinge enough to open a small workshop at 12 Malaya Morskaya in #StPetersburg producing enameled articles, including dollhouse miniatures, in gold starting in 1870. After his death, in 1894, his widow Anna Karlovna Ringe (1840-1912) ran the workshop, making her potentially the first and only female Faberge workmaster. Fellow workmasters #AndersMickelson and Vassily Soloviev ran the Ringe workshop first as assistants, and independently in 1912 after her death.

Music:

Tschaikovsky , "Elegy for Strings" / #elegyforivansamarin

Sources:

H.C. Bainbridge, Peter Carl #Fabergé: Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court (1966)

G.von #Habsburg-Lothringen & A.von Solodkoff, Fabergé - Court Jeweler to the #Tsars (1979) ISBN 0-914427-09-1

Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm, Fabergén suomalaiset mestarit (Fabergé's Finnish masters) (2011), p. 257 ISBN 978-951-31-5878-1

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