1914 Catherine The Great Imperial Surprise Faberge Easter Egg

Catherine the Great Egg, Easter 1914. On display at Hillwood, Faberge

The Catherine the Great egg, also known as Grisaille Egg and Pink Cameo Egg, is an Imperial Fabergé egg, one of a series of fifty-four jewelled enameled Easter eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian Imperial family . History

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Catherine the Great: Also known as the "Grisaille". The egg was made by Henrik Wigström, "Fabergé's last head workmaster". It was given to Maria Feodorovna by her son Nicholas II. Its surprise (now lost) was "a mechanical sedan chair, carried by two blackamoors, with Catherine the Great seated inside". Hillwood Museum, Washington, D.C., US 1915

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Details Title: Catherine the Great Easter Egg Creator: Fabergé (firm); Henrik Immanuel Wigström (workmaster); Vasilii Ivanovich Zuev (miniatures) Creator Lifespan: 1846/1920 Creator Nationality:.

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Height: 12,1 cm. The Catherine the Great Egg, also known as Grisaille Egg, and Pink Cameo Egg, is made of quatre-couleur gold, pink grisaille and opaque white enamel, portrait diamonds, rose-cut diamonds, seed pearls and velvet lining. The Surprise (lost), a mechanical sedan chair, was made of gold, enamel and probably diamonds.

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CNN — For over a century, the name Faberge has evoked wealth, opulence and the world's most extravagant Easter eggs. The small, intricately decorated objets d'art - which Russia's royal House.

Catherine the Great Easter Egg by Fabergé, 1914 The Cather… Flickr

An exceptional resource for images and information about all fifty Imperial Easter eggs is The Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs, published by Christie's in 1997.. Catherine the Great in 1793.

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The egg is said to have been based on the design of a famed 18th-century orange tree "mechanical," which is why the piece was for years mislabeled the Orange Tree Egg. An original invoice from.

1914 Catherine The Great Imperial Surprise Faberge Easter Egg

Yekaterina Alekseyevna Original name: Sophie Friederike Auguste, Prinzessin von Anhalt-Zerbst Born: April 21 [May 2, New Style], 1729, Stettin, Prussia [now Szczecin, Poland] Died: November 6 [November 17], 1796, Tsarskoye Selo [now Pushkin], near St. Petersburg, Russia (aged 67) Title / Office: empress (1762-1796), Russian Empire Notable Works:

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The violent Russian revolutions of 1917 saw the end of this extravagant tradition, with the czars overthrown, the Fabergé family fleeing Russia and many of the eggs confiscated by the Bolsheviks..

Catherine the Great Easter Egg

Catherine the Great Easter Egg, 1914 Gold, Enamel, Diamonds, Pearls 4 3/4 in | 12.1 cm Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens Washington Get notifications for similar works Want to sell a work by this artist? Sell with Artsy Artist Series Portraits of Artists and Sculptors 113 available Portraits of Artists and Sculptors 113 available

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CATHERINE THE GREAT EASTER EGG Made from: Gold -- diamonds -- pearls -- enamel -- silver -- platinum -- mirror Made in: Saint Petersburg, Russia Date made: 1914 Size: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm) Detailed information for this item Catalog number: 11.81.1-2 Class: GOLD

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Nov 15, 2017 2:55PM A curator from the Royal Collection examines a mosaic egg, made by Russian jeweller and goldsmith Peter Carl Faberge which was originally commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II in 1914 and acquired by Queen Mary in 1933. Photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA Images via Getty Images.

The SoCalled 1914 CATHERINE THE GREAT Fabergé IMPERIAL EASTER EGG

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Catherine the Great Faberge Easter Egg, (aka, the Grisaille Egg), 1914

The Catherine the Great Easter egg was commissioned by Czar Nicholas II for his mother. The Faberge workshop crafted it out of diamonds, pearls, silver, gold, platinum and a shimmering opalescent.