Faberge eggs

If you missed last week’s Christie’s London micro sale of Fabergé objects, a petite gathering of 84 carved animalia, objets de vertu, and other collectibles by the celebrated Russian jeweler extraordinare, you can still get your guilloche enamel fix at another venue across the pond. Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution has opened at the…

Many have heard of the famous Fabergé eggs. But why are they so famous? The answer surely lies in where the eggs came from (and, no, they didn’t come from the Easter bunny). Celebrating its “rebirth” at Baselworld 2015, Fabergé introduced the first egg of the new era as a unique pieceand is calling the incredible Pearl Egg “the first egg created in the ‘imperial class' since 1917.”

In the beginning, these eggs were a very very fancy way of sending one another images of miniature Icons of Madonna and Child etc…but instead of coating it with paint or chocolate…they …

Faberge Egg from the Vatican Museums

This is the perfect Faberge for winter. This stunning piece has 1800 Swarovski crystals hand set in it. It also looks like nighttime stargazing. They are all in a snowflake royal crest pattern. The egg opens to become a jewelry holder or trinket holder. I keep mine by my bed for my jewelry. This is so pretty and so shiny that you have to love it. This is midnight blue with silver crystals the top is a gorgeous one of my favorite eggs, 4.5” tall x 2.6" wide.

Anastasia Wallpaper in Berlingot by Manuel Canovas

No object is as synonymous with Romanov Russia as a Fabergé imperial Easter egg.

Meanwhile, in Victorian era Russia, an entire other universe of interesting things were happening. The Tsars were at their most opulent and various seeds of unrest were stirring, led by self procla…

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