On December 2, Christie’s set the World Auction Record for Faberrgé – the third time in its history – after releasing a winter egg, made by Alma Theresia Pihl, to include $ 30.2 million in Gabergé from Faberloll. That night he also saw similar activities The killing of Matheliwa from the mountainaltareral altareralie by Peter Paul Rubens, too Flugazi playerthe handiwork of rembrandt Pustil Gerrit Dour, Sold in the Royal Space, combined with the sale of Faberré brought more than $ 53,5 million.
In both its majesty and its display, the winter egg – one of the fifty Easter eggs alleged by members of the Romanov Dynasty – was pristine. Sending Fabergé eggs has been an Easter tradition among the Russians since 1885, when Czari Alexander III opened the first hen’s egg – a wonderful white ovoid that opened to reveal the golden yolk from which your hen came – to his wife. Czar Nicholas II, whose father started this tradition, gave fabergé eggs to his mother and wife every year. The winter egg was a 1913 gift from Nicholas II to his mother, Dowager Empress Maria Foodorovna. It is one of two surviving eggs designed by Alma Pihl – widely regarded as one of the greatest talents to emerge from the luxury atelier. Pihl was inspired by a winter’s day, when he gazed out at his snow-covered terrace and marveled at the snowflakes full of Fractaled frost froadfrong the face “like a garden of sweet frozen flowers.”
The winter egg rests on the Purelcent Crystal in a structure that mimics a glacier, wound by interlocking diamond ribs. Delightfully furnished with rock crystal, the egg is set in a gossamer snowflake motif, with each flurry trailing in platinum, and set with 4,508 diamonds. While strong in its appeal, it brings out the ephemerality of snow and winter – a theme that reaches the hidden wonder of the egg “.” The revival of winter literally, and truly, gives the glory of spring when the winter egg is opened to reveal the Platinum Platinum Cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling cradling souquet of white ququemones blooming with golden spray moss.
The egg was bought in the 1920s by a London dealer for a small sum when the Soviet government sold treasures following the Russian Revolution several times, and sold records for each sale. Yesterday’s sale set a new World Auction Record for any work by the renowned atelier. According to Margo Oganesia, Feberré and Russia, the works of the Head of the Department of Art, the sale confirms “the importance of craftsmanship” and celebrates “a magnificence that is widely considered one of the most beautiful creations, technically and technologically.” Bibergé’s sale is complete, he added, attracting fierce competition from bidders around the world.
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