Faberge eggs

The new bejewelled Fabergé egg was created in collaboration with the Al-Fardan family of pearl merchants and is inspired by the formation of a pearl.

Meanwhile, in Victorian era Russia, an entire other universe of interesting things were happening. The Tsars were at their most opulent and various seeds of unrest were stirring, led by self procla…

(Tillander-Godenhielm, Fabergén suomalaiset mestarit, 2011, 131)

Many have heard of the famous Fabergé eggs. But why are they so famous? The answer surely lies in where the eggs came from (and, no, they didn’t come from the Easter bunny). Celebrating its “rebirth” at Baselworld 2015, Fabergé introduced the first egg of the new era as a unique pieceand is calling the incredible Pearl Egg “the first egg created in the ‘imperial class' since 1917.”

If you missed last week’s Christie’s London micro sale of Fabergé objects, a petite gathering of 84 carved animalia, objets de vertu, and other collectibles by the celebrated Russian jeweler extraordinare, you can still get your guilloche enamel fix at another venue across the pond. Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution has opened at the…

Art, as we said earlier, has no limits and this means that there is a lot that comes under the definition of art. Plus art is something that comes with a huge

In the beginning, these eggs were a very very fancy way of sending one another images of miniature Icons of Madonna and Child etc…but instead of coating it with paint or chocolate…they …