Faberge ägg
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An ornamented table clock coated with translucent violet enamel with a translucent oyster enameled three-legged base. Currently owned by Estate of the late Kerry Packer. Alexander III was very impressed with Faberge's artworks that he granted him a royal warrant making him goldsmith to the imperial crown. The egg holds a varicolored cockerel paved with rose-cut diamonds, an automated bird that flaps its wings when the clock strikes an hour.
This, in turn, allows him to stamp the Romanov crest. Before the auction even began the Forbes collection was purchased in its entirety by the oligarch Victor Vekselberg for a sum estimated between $90 and $120 million. This piece was said to have pushed Mr. Holstrom to insanity due to the elaborate and intricate design. The imperial egg houses a 4-inches long exact replica of the imperial coach that Alexandra rode to Uspensky Cathedral.
Diamond Trellis Egg (1892)
Privately owned by the couple Artie and Dorothy McFerrin, they bought this egg for 4,750 silver rubles.
Caucasus Egg (1893)
Made by Mikhail Perkhin of the house of Faberge, an imperial egg made from various materials such as gold, silver m diamonds, and rock crystals and watercolor on ivory.
The shell is made of a halved rock crystal braced by an emerald green enameled gold. Also known as the cuckoo clock egg that has the mechanism that enables the bird to come out and move in the top of the egg. Made from nephrite, five painted portraits of the royal children are shown on the body of the imperial egg initials of Empress Alexandra with the year of 1908 with a set of diamonds within a wreath of flowers and gold leaves adorned with rubies and shards of diamonds.
The swan feature was inspired by the silver swan of James cox that Faberge once saw on Paris world's fair. “Definitely the Winter Egg,” he said recently of the egg designed by Alma Theresia Pihl and given by Tsar Nicholas II to his mother, the dowager empress Maria Feodorovna in 1913. The egg houses a detailed mockup of the Alexander Palace made with coated gold and silver.
The shell was said to house the resurrection egg, for it fits the egg perfectly.
Below, read about nine of the most important Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs.
Mosaic Egg, 1914
The genius behind a pair of the most celebrated eggs was Alma Theresia Pihl, one of two women who worked as designers at the House of Fabergé at the beginning of the 20th century.
U.S. petroleum magnate and art collector Armand Hammer (great-grandfather of the actor Armie Hammer) picked up the Renaissance Egg and nine others for a mere 1,500 rubles, the equivalent of about $12,000 in today’s dollars, sometime after WWI. He sold the Renaissance Egg in 1937 to Henry Talbot DeVere Clifton, a British aristocrat and film producer.
The most significant imperial egg. A cabochon star-shaped sapphire stone medallion at the crown of the egg with acanthus leaves decoration at the base. Its original cost was 16,600 silver rubles; it belongs to the collection of imperial eggs bought by Viktor Vekselberg and is now on display at the Faberge Museum. The flowers denote purity, innocence, and love.