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Rose Trellis Egg

House of Fabergé (Russian, est. 1842)

Henrik Wigström (Finnish, 1862-1923)

Peter Carl Fabergé (Russian, 1846-1920)

1907

gold, enamel, diamonds

3 1/16 x 2 5/16 in. (7.7 x 5.9 cm)

Description
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.
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Acquired by Henry Walters, 1930

44.501

Charles Street: Second Floor: 18th- & 19th-Century Treasury

St. Petersburg, Russia


Provenance

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.

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