Faberge eggs in Russia are in the Armory, in the private collection of Vekselberg, A.E. Museum Fersman RAS and the Russian National Museum, opened by Alexander Ivanov. In the last place you can see the most expensive Faberge egg.
Everyone who heard the name Faberge imagines expensive jewelry that was highly valued even by royal people. Among the customers of Carl Faberge were the kings and queens of Spain, England, Italy, Greece, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Siam. The Russian royal family ordered 56 eggs. He especially appreciated the talent of the jeweler Nicholas II, who, on the eve of each Easter, ordered 2 eggs and gave them to his wife and mother.
The success of Faberge jewelry company
The workshop of Faberge, after it was headed by Carl, turned from a modest room, which few people knew about, into one of the most popular places in St. Petersburg. Grand dukes came here daily to see what the jeweler had invented.
For 32 years of work, Carl Faberge created about 70 jewelry eggs, 56 for the royal family and 14 for private collections. If a few years ago, experts believed that Faberge made the most exquisite and expensive products for the royal court, then in November 2007 they had to change their minds, a private collection item, the Rothschild egg, was put up for auction.
The Rothschild Egg - the most expensive Faberge product
This egg was ordered by Maurice Efrussia to give his brother-in-law Edward Rothschild a wedding. Since its inception, it was kept in the Rothschild family and was its property, in 2007 it was put up for auction in London and bought by Russian collector Alexander Ivanov for a record price of $ 18.5 million.
This product consists of watches and a surprise, a golden cockerel encrusted with diamonds is shown every hour from an egg. Faberge used pink enamel to decorate the eggs. Modern experts call the Rothschild egg a perfect mechanism and a work of art.
Karl Faberge made two more similar eggs: the Chauntecleer, which Alexander Kelch, a well-known gold miner, ordered for his private collection, and the Cockerel for the collection of the royal family.
