How do you like your eggs in the morning?
The new bejewelled Fabergé egg was created in collaboration with the Al-Fardan family of pearl merchants and is inspired by the formation of a pearl.
Easter Eggs Made By Legendary Russian Jeweler Fabergé Are World-Renowned Masterpieces.
The largest exhibition in a generation of Faberge imperial eggs, made as unique Easter gifts from the tsar for his tsarina, is being staged in London at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Instead of the Cadbury kind, here’s a look at a few bejeweled versions worth millions and millions.
Richard Tobin, who admitting to stealing nearly £800,000 worth of Fabergé goods from Christie's London, will be sentenced just days after Easter.
May 30 marks the 170th anniversary of the birth of Peter Carl Fabergé, the legendary Russian jeweler. From the Huguenots of France to the British queen, RBTH retraces the life of the creator of the famous Fabergé eggs.
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A Fabergé gem-set gold-mounted carved striated agate and enamel cup, workmaster Michael Perchin, Saint Petersburg, late 19th century, with scratched Fabergé inventory number 52147. The carved bulbous bowl fitted with a conjoined C-scroll handle surmounted by a white-enameled gold ruble coin of Empress Elizabeth, dated 1756, in a chased laurel bezel and flanked by a rose diamond and a cabochon ruby; the circular footed based engraved with channeling. Height: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm). Provenance: Parke-Bernet, New York, March 23, 1971, lot 164.
Instead of the Cadbury kind, here’s a look at a few bejeweled versions worth millions and millions.
Image 11 of 18 from gallery of Fabergé Big Egg Hunt Features Designs by Leading Architects. Dichotomy / Zaha Hadid - Courtesy of The Big Egg Hunt Co
The Winter Egg • The Moscow Kremlin Egg • The Alexander III Portraits Egg • The Tzarevich Egg • The Revolving Miniatures Egg • More ...
Catalogue of Faberge Eggs (II). Presented by Nicholas II to his mother, the Empress Marie Feodorovna. I. The Danish Palace Egg Dated 1895, workmaster M. Perchin. Present location: Matilda Geddings …
Instead of the Cadbury kind, here’s a look at a few bejeweled versions worth millions and millions.
Il aura fallu plus de 10 ans de travail à l'arrière petite-fille de Peter Carl Fabergé, ainsi qu'aux deux auteurs Eric-Alain Kohler et Valentin Skurlov, pour condenser l'histoire de la maison de joaillerie russe en 624 pages. Un ouvrage de référence sur Fabergé à découvrir aux éditions Slatkine.
In one of those stunning stories only made possible by the Internet, in 2012 a man turned to Google to search for "Vacheron & Constantin" and "egg" to find that the jewel-encrusted gold egg housing a Vacheron watch he purchased for $13,302 in the early 2000s at a Midwestern flea market was in fact an 1887 birthday gift for Tsar Alexander III from Peter Carl Fabergé. It has now sold privately for millions, likely making it the most expensive timepiece on earth.
