Value from scrap … 20 million! History of Fabbergie eggs
A. Easter It is the time of faith, peace and time of family, but especially the smallest chocolate eggs. But do you know how this tradition started?
The owl offer is a millennial tradition that is used before the birth of Christ. Egg is a symbol of breeding and life rebirth and the spring is given to friends and family members of the spring early to celebrate at the end of the winter. When Christian Easter begins to celebrate, merged into the calendar of Spring Easter week. And then the eggs were provided, but the importance of the date began to be colored and painted.
Over time, these offers have begun to obtain value in the elite. The King of England Eduardo i He began to provide gold -plated eggs for his favorite disorders. In FranceLouis XIV It gave the wood, porcelain eggs and metals inside. And these two examples were provided Peter Carl Fabberge Pregnant the famous imperial eggs.
The Russian court, liked to figure out this date to put eggs to the Emperor’s family, because they suggest a hope, a new life and the maximum symbol of the grown Christ.
What eggs were made? And where are they?
These eggs are sophisticated examples of jewelery art and they cannot be used for each other, they are for decoration. Eggs, whose size is made of gold, silver, colorful enamels and precious stones that are not exceeding 13 centimeters. It took a year to complete and made with more privacy. Between 1885 and 1917, the height of the end of the Empire, Fabergie’s studios created more than 50 eggs to the imperial family. With the Bolshevic revolution, Romanov’s wealth was scattered and their assets were confiscated and these eggs were gone. The Kremlin Museum in Moscow preserves 10 eggs, three of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the USA. In 1998, there were 44 eggs, some in private hand. In 2002, a Fabbergie egg was sold for 6 9.6 million.
A. British sovereignty Their collections include three Fabergge eggs. They were adopted from the heritage of grandparents. Of course King George v And and Queen Mary They are great fans for the work of these Russian jewelery. Buy the columns of the eggs, a flower basket and mosaic in 1933. The mosaic egg is one of the most familiar in the entire imperial collection.
In scrap… worth 20 million
For many years, a person has an egg, in some elderly woman and not given him importance. I didn’t know what it was, but one day he saw him well and wanted to sell it with gold. In 2012, it was an ancient, he was rare in hand. Upon authentication, the egg with the clock inside was sold to a private collector for 20 million.
Text: Maria Concentonsia Costanheera; Photos: Doctor
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