{"id":608252,"date":"2025-12-02T22:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608252\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T22:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:05:14","slug":"rare-faberge-egg-fetches-record-22-9m-at-london-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608252\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Faberg\u00e9 egg fetches record \u00a322.9m at London auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Today&#8217;s result sets a new world auction record for a work by Faberg\u00e9, reaffirming the enduring significance of this masterpiece,&#8221; Christie&#8217;s Margo Oganesian was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 8.2cm high (3.2in) egg was created by Carl Faberg\u00e9, based on the design of Alma Theresia Pihl, one of only two female workmasters at St Petersburg&#8217;s jewellery company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was carved from rock crystal and decorated with rose-cut diamonds, as well as platinum snowflake motifs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The egg opens up to reveal a tiny basket of white quartz flowers inside. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Faberg\u00e9 house only ever made 50 eggs for Russia&#8217;s imperial Romanov family, and the Imperial Winter Egg is one of just seven left in private hands. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The others are either missing or owned by institutions or museums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The eggs were made from 1885 until Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate in 1917.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Today&#8217;s result sets a new world auction record for a work by Faberg\u00e9, reaffirming the enduring significance of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-608252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115652245893089239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}