Faberge’s rare Winter Egg fetches record £22.9M at auction • FRANCE 24 English

Faberge’s rare Winter Egg fetches record £22.9M at auction • FRANCE 24 English

snowflakes shining in the light. This is Faber’s winter egg. A unique creation that makes up part of the Russian jeweler’s Easter egg series. It’s said to house 4 and a half thousand rosecut diamonds carved into rock crystal. The egg, which contains a bouquet of flowers, was made for Russia’s last emperor, Nicholas II, who gave it as a present to his mother in 1913. 112 years later, it sold for 22.9 million pounds or 26 million at British auction house Christies. The winter is truly one of the rarest items that you can find. Faber created only 50 imperial Easter eggs for the Roman of family over the period of 31 year and out of those 50 only 43 still exist. So seven are missing. Uh, out of those 43, only seven left in private hands. So, it just shows you how rare and how important the winter rack is. It’s one of only seven Imperial Easter eggs you can still essentially purchase for your collection. The tradition of offering the eggs as Easter gifts began with the Tar’s father, Alexander III, a custom that ended with the fall of the Romanov family in 1917. Since then, the eggs are considered a historic relic, and many of them were sold after the revolution by the Soviet government to raise foreign currency. The last time the winter egg was auctioned was in 2002 when a former Qatari Minister of Culture bought it for €8 million. With a new record now set, no buyer has been named as of yet.

Fabergé’s The Winter Egg sold for nearly £23 million ($30 million) at Christie’s in London, setting a new world auction record. Commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II in 1913, it is one of 43 surviving Imperial Easter Eggs, prized for its rarity and craftsmanship.
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