Wartski LtdEst. 1865 |
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14 Grafton Street
London
London
W1S 4DE
England
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Contact Name: Geoffrey Munn, Katherine Purcell
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Tel: +44 (0)20-7493 1141
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Fax: +44 (0)20-7409 7448
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Website: www.wartski.com
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Opening hours: Open Monday-Friday 9.30-5 |
| 18th- and 19th-century jewellery; Faberge*; Russian works of art; 18th-century gold boxes; antique silver |
Additional Information:
Exhibitor : Tefaf Maastricht, The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair, The International fine art and antique dealers Show
Wartski is a family owned firm of art and antique dealers, specialising in fine jewellery, gold boxes and works by Carl Fabergé. The firm was founded in Llandudno, North Wales in 1865 by Morris Wartski, maternal grandfather of the gallery´s late Chairman A. Kenneth Snowman. The business thrived under the patronage of King Edward VII and a colourful clientele including the Marquis of Anglesey known as the ´dancing Marquis´ with his penchant for emerald set ping-pong shirts, and the nocturnal Mr Blair who questioned the spirits in his walled garden before deciding on a purchase.
The two branches of the firm in Llandudno were augmented by a third in London, opened by Emanuel Snowman, the son in law of Morris Wartski in 1911. Emanuel was the first to venture to Russia in 1925 to purchase from the industrialising Soviet Union treasures confiscated in the years following the revolution of 1917. His trips continued until the outbreak of World War II during which time many seventeenth and eighteenth century objects including the gold chalice designed by Catherine The Great were acquired together with numerous Fabergé pieces. These included no fewer than eleven of the Imperial Easter Eggs, establishing a tradition of dealing in fine works of art which continues to this day.
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