Winter egg Fabergé.Designed by Alma Theresia Pihl, master Albert Holmström, Petersburg, 1913. © christies.com
Egg Fabergé Imperial “Winter Eggs”, ordered for Russia's last Tsar, Nicholas II, was sold on Tuesday for a evidence amount of £22.9 ($30.2 million) at the London auction home Christie’s, reported the auction house.
According to Christie’s, the public auction lasted about 3 minutes and the buyer was not identified.The 1913 egg was made for Nicholas II, who was to give to his mother, Empress widow Maria Fyodorovna, as an Easter gift.It was carved out of a mountain crystal and decorated with platinum motifs of snowflakes blown up with rosette sand diamonds, as reported by the auction house, and its base has the form of melting ice.Inside is removed ‘surprise’ – a platinum basket with diamonds in which are carved anemones of quartz, with leaves with jade and navy centers.The price exceeded Christie’s pre-sale estimates of over £20 million, reported the agency Reuters."It is 1 of the imperial Easter eggs created by Fabergé for the Romanovs. And the winter egg is most likely the best of all” “Margo Oganesian, head of the Fabergé department and Russian works of art at Christie’s, said.‘Winter egg’ was designed – different for those times – by the jeweler Alma Pihl.
Legend has it that Pihl, the niece of the main jeweler Fabergé, Albert Holmstrom, came up with an idea, observing how crystals of ice form on the store site of her studio.The jewels of the Fabergé egg were made for Nicholas II and his predecessor, Alexander III, who donated them as Easter gifts to members of the imperial family.
The plan and execution of each 1 usually took about a year, and the tsars usually ordered a new, lavish copy shortly after the erstwhile 1 was delivered.The historical petersburg jeweler made imperial eggs for the Russian Romanov family, and it is known that there are 43 of them.
‘Winter Eggs’ is 1 of 7 that are inactive in private hands, while the others are missing or held by institutions and museums.The Winter Egg went missing in 1975 and was rediscovered again in 1994, according to the auction house.
Christie’s auction home has already sold them twice – in Geneva in 1994 and in fresh York City in 2002, each time reaching evidence prices, Reuters reports.
The Fabergé Rothschild egg reached $18.5 million in 2007.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/628862-faberge-winter-egg-auction/
