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RUSSIAN FABERGE IMPERIAL CORONATION EGG NICHOLAS TZAR

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Wonderful luxury gift for some you love or care most

Of all the works of Faberge, the Imperial Easter Eggs are creating the greatest interest today. For all time they are a monument to his master mind and skill.But traditions of great C.Faberge school are still alive and carried on by top masters of jewellery art. And t is still no any gift for Some One you really love and care existing more unusual, fascinating & precious than Egg.

You can present it for person of any age -

-it stunningly decorates someones home interiour, causing that WOW-factor and plenty of admiration from all people who see it in your place

- it can be used for jewellery storing

- it can be a stunning unusial gift when you don't know what to give as a present as "he/she has got it all already" :)

- it can put a beginning for a new collection and of course superb gift for a collector of Eggs and any person who is interested in Russian history

Height 4 " in ( 10 cm)

Width 2.5" in ( 6cm)

Though original Faberge Spring Flowers Egg belongs to Victor Vekselberg in Moscow the rights to produce authorised copies belongs to the biggest art museums in Sankt-Petersburg and Moscow who are working together with Sankt-Petersburg Factories w original gFaberge has been produced .This is an authorized, authentically reproduced piece, and production is limited. Note: This piece is not made by the House of Faberge'. Faberge'® is the registered trademark of House of Faberge'. This is an authorized, authentically reproduced masterpiece. Sold exclusively in Antique and Museum Art Jewellery boutiques, generally in Russia.

Info about the ORIGINAL FABERGE Imperial Coronation Egg ( historical note)

Name Coronation Egg

Date 1897

Provenance Presented by Nicholas II to Czarina Alexandra Fyodorovna

Made in St. Petersburg

Work-master Michael Perchin

Marks MP, crossed anchors, 56

Materials gold, enamel, diamonds, rock cristal, platinum

Dimensions 12,7 cm (5") Length of coach: 9,4 cm (3"11/16)

Kept in Svyaz' Vremyon Fund - Viktor Vekselberg collection - Moscow

This is the most popular of all the Faberge eggs. This superb gold egg enamelled translucent lime yellow on a guilloché field of starbursts (reminiscent of the gold robe worn by the empress at her Coronation), is trellised by with bands of greenish gold laurel leaves mounted at each intersection by a gold Imperial double-headed eagle enamelled opaque black, and set with a rose diamond on its chests. This pattern was drawn from the cloth-of-gold Coronation Robe worn by the Empress.

A large portrait diamond is set in the top of the egg within a cluster of ten brilliant diamonds; through the table of this stone, the monogram of the Empress is seen. A smaller portrait diamond is set within a cluster of rose diamonds at the end of the egg, beneath which the date is inscribed on a similar plaque. The name Wigström is roughly scratched on the inner surface of the shell. The egg was delivered, together with a glass-enclosed jadeite stand for the display of the Carriage, at a cost of 5650 rubles.

Nicholas loved the pomp and ritual of military life and Imperial ceremony, which required him only to look good and say little. On May 9, 1896, Nicholas and Alexandra were crowned in the Uspenski Cathedral in Moscow in one of the most magnificent pageants in Russian history. Attended by over seven thousand guests from around the world, including most of Europe's royalty, the celebrations lasted for two weeks. To commemorate th...

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