Snowmen of the past
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Great photographic history.
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Cute!
Apropos of nothing, Carl Fabergé had a female workmaster who invented a genre of jewelry using the frozen patterns she saw on her window as motifs for her craftsmanship techniques and finished jewels.
I'll edit this post after I Google to give her credit.
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https://fabergeresearch.com/workmasters/
"Alma Pihl – Sister of Oskar, her married name was Alma Klee.
Alma Pihl (1888-1976) began her career with Fabergé sketching drawings in design stock books for her uncle, Albert Holmström. Her design talent found its full expression in the snowflake theme epitomized in the Winter Egg, and therefore, scholars suggest the Nobel Ice Egg was made in the Holmström workshop between 1910 and 1914. (Lowes and McCanless, Fabergé Eggs: A Retrospective Encyclopedia [2001], 170-1, 279.)
The Nobel Ice Egg (2011 McFerrin Collection) was designed by Alma Pihl and features the snowflake theme developed for one of Fabergé’s most prolific clients. Dr. Emanuel Nobel (1859-1932), nephew of the dynamite inventor Alfredt Nobel, who operated the Nobel Brothers Petroleum Production Company in Baku (now Azerbaijan), Russia, and by April 1917 employed 50,000 workers, producing one-third of Russia’s crude oil, 40% of all refined oil, and supplying two-thirds of all the total domestic consumption. (Winter 09-10)"https://www.beadinggem.com/2022/04/the-woman-who-designed-two-faberge.html
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You can see this piece, designed by her, in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
image url)https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Nobel_Ice_(Fabergé_egg)_at_VMFA.jpg
