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Rose Trellis Egg
(18th and 19th Centuries )
On April 22, 1907, Tsar Nicholas II presented this egg to his wife, Alexandra Fedorovna, to commemorate the birth of the tsarevich, Alexei Nicholaievich, three years earlier. Because of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, no Imperial Easter eggs had been produced for two years. The egg contained as a surprise a diamond necklace and an ivory miniature portrait of the tsarevich framed in diamonds (now lost). Fabergé's invoice, dated April 21, 1907, listed the egg at 8,300 rubles.
Provenance
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Tsar Nicholas II, Anichkov Palace, St. Petersburg, April 21, 1907, by purchase; Tsarina Alexandra Fedorovna, Anichkov Palace, St. Petersburg, April 22, 1907, by gift; Kremlin Armory, 1917 [transferred by the Kerensky government from the palace to the armory]; Alexandre Polovtsoff, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2017-2018 | Fabergé and the Russian Crafts Tradition: An Empire's Legacy . The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
| 2014-2016 | From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
| 2012-2013 | Fabergé: Designing Luxury, from the Virgina Museum of Fine Arts. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit. |
| 2008-2009 | Artistic Luxury. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco. |
| 2003-2004 | The Fabergé Menagerie. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; Portland Art Museum, Portland. |
| 1996-1997 | Fabergé in America. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. |
| 1997 | Carl Fabergé. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. |
| 1984 | Objects of Vertu: Precious Works of the Eighteenth Century. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 5/2/1977 | Examination | examined for loan |
Geographies
Russia, St. Petersburg (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 3 1/16 x W: 2 5/16 in. (7.7 x 5.9 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1930
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
44.501