Fauxbergé
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Fauxbergé[1] (Russian: фальшберже) is a term coined to generally describe items that are faking a higher quality or status and in specific terms relates to the House of Fabergé (Russian: Дом Фаберже), which was a Russian jewellery firm founded in 1842 in Saint Petersburg and nationalised by the Bolsheviks in 1918. The term was first mentioned in a publication by auctioneer and Fabergé book author Archduke Géza of Austria in his article "Fauxbergé," published in Art and Auction in 1994.[2] He also used it during the exhibition "Fabergé in America"[3] in 1996[4] and subsequent later ones.
Nowadays, the term is a part of the expertise vocabulary in the field of Fabergé; it is used to refer to items that are copies, counterfeits or pastiches of historical Fabergé products made between 1885 and 1917.