Henrik Wigström

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Henrik Wigström (1862–1923), a Finnish-born jeweler and goldsmith, was from 1903 head workmaster for the firm of Peter Carl Fabergé in St Petersburg.

Born in Ekenäs, Finland, Henrik Wigström was apprenticed to a local silversmith Petter Madsen. He travelled to St Petersburg and in 1884 was taken on by Michael Perchin as a journeyman, becoming his most valued assistant. When Perchin died in 1903 his workshop passed to Wigström and Fabergé appointed him head workmaster. The workshop continued to produce important commissions and some of the best examples of cigarette cases and boxes which the firm ever made, in Wigström's largely neo-classical style. Many of the hardstone animals and figures, together with the flowers were produced in his workshop.