Fauxbergé

Fauxbergé (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. He also used it during the exhibition "Fabergé in America" in 1996 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.