[{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/kelch-gothic-revival-silver-service\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/kelch-gothic-revival-silver-service\/","headline":"Kelch Gothic Revival silver service","name":"Kelch Gothic Revival silver service","description":"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Neo-Gothic Alexander and Barbara Kelch\u2019s silver service View of the Kelch silverware. Faberg\u00e9 Exposition in","datePublished":"2017-03-08","dateModified":"2017-03-08","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/author\/lordneo\/#Person","name":"lordneo","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/author\/lordneo\/","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c9645c498c9701c88b89b8537773dd7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c9645c498c9701c88b89b8537773dd7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/81\/Faberge_Kelch_silver_tableware_1.jpg\/220px-Faberge_Kelch_silver_tableware_1.jpg","url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/81\/Faberge_Kelch_silver_tableware_1.jpg\/220px-Faberge_Kelch_silver_tableware_1.jpg","height":"157","width":"220"},"url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/kelch-gothic-revival-silver-service\/","wordCount":1659,"articleBody":"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNeo-Gothic Alexander and Barbara Kelch\u2019s silver service  View of the Kelch silverware. Faberg\u00e9 Exposition in Petersburg. Photo 1902.  Part of the Kelch silverware. High epergne. Photo 1900.  Part of the Kelch silverware. Candlestick. Photo 1900.  Kelch silverware. Crown-topped shield with a monogram in the form of the letter ‘K’.The Kelch Gothic Revival silver service, created in 1900, was one of the finest silver services made by Peter Carl Faberg\u00e9. The silverware was commissioned by Alexander and Barbara Kelch (Russian:\u041a\u0435\u043b\u044c\u0445, Kelkh). Peter Carl Faberg\u00e9 considered it the most important silver masterpiece made in his workshop; it was also the most expensive.[1]Kelch\u2019s silverware is assumed to have been melted down circa 1918, following the October Revolution. For the next 100 years experts of Faberg\u00e9 had claimed that the tableware was completely destroyed.[2] In 2017, it appeared that items from the service had survived, having been discovered in Poland.[1]Table of ContentsHistory[edit]Description[edit]References[edit]Works cited[edit]External links[edit]History[edit]The idea for designing the service in the neo-Gothic style was conceived in 1898 along with the rebuilding of the Kelch mansion in Saint Petersburg. The service was intended to complement Barbara Kelch\u2019s Gothic scheme for the new dining room.[2]The tableware was designed in 1900 by the distinguished Russian architect Fedor Shekhtel who cooperated with Faberg\u00e9. The tableware was made in 1900 in a Moscow branch of Faberg\u00e9’s company. Alexander Kelch paid the astounding sum of 125,000 rubles[2] for the tableware. The price Alexander Kelch paid for the tableware makes it the most expensive Faberg\u00e9 work that was ever made.Parts of the Kelch\u2019s tableware were presented on the charity exhibition of Faberg\u00e9 works organized in 1902 in Saint Petersburg in Baron Paul von Dervies’ mansion. This was the one and only exhibition of Faberg\u00e9 works organized in the period of his activity. The exhibition presented Faberg\u00e9 works belonging to Empresses Maria Feodorovna and Alexandra Feodorovna and family members of the House of Romanov and representatives of the aristocracy.[3] The Kelch\u2019s silver service was the only work shown at this exhibition which didn’t belong to the aristocrats, but to the family of rich industrialists.Until 1905 Kelch\u2019s silver tableware was in the Kelch mansion in Saint Petersburg. In that year, as a result of Alexander and Barbara separation, the tableware was transported to the Bazanov\u2019s palace in Moscow.[1] After the October Revolution in 1918 the Kelch\u2019s silver service was confiscated and melted down. For 100 years, until 2017 it was considered as completely destroyed, as no parts of the service were in any Faberg\u00e9 collection. In January 2017 some pieces of cutlery appearing to come from the neo-Gothic Kelch service surfaced in the art market in Poland.[1]Description[edit]The Aleksander and Barbara Kelch’s representative tableware was made in the neo-Gothic style. The style of silver service referred to the style and the d\u00e9cor of the dining room in Kelch mansion in Saint Petersburg.[2] The decoration and ornaments used by Faberg\u00e9 are coming from the English and German Gothic style.Motifs of the tableware are stylized Gothic architecture, plant ornaments, dragons, griffins, lizards, snakes and other Gothic creatures, heraldic lilly, crown-topped shield with a monogram in the form of the letter ‘K’.[1]The tableware consisted of many dishes and objects, including: a surtout de table, two seven-lamp candlesticks, two high tureens, soup tureens with lids, platters, bowls, plates, sauce boats, trays, cabarets, cutlery, salt cellars and others.[4]The medieval dragons were the main motif decorating the tableware, therefore the Kelch\u2019s tableware sometimes is being called the “Faberg\u00e9 dragon tableware”. Crown-topped shield with a monogram in the form of the letter ‘K’ is also an important motif decorating the objects belonging to the Kelch\u2019s tableware.[4] The pieces were marked with the Faberg\u00e9 hallmark and the court jeweler hallmark.References[edit]Works cited[edit]Adam Szyma\u0144ski (2014). Faberg\u00e9. Historia i arcydzie\u0142a. Opole: Metropolisart.G\u00e9za von Habsburg (2004). Faberg\u00e9 Treasures of Imperial Russia. Petersburg: Link of Times Foundation.Tatiana Faberg\u00e9 (2012). Faberg\u00e9. A comprehensive reference book. Genewa: Editions Slatkine.External links[edit]"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/kelch-gothic-revival-silver-service\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Kelch Gothic Revival silver service"}}]}]