'Catherine the Great Easter Egg' by Fabergé photo Helen Betts photos
August 27, 2018 by EraGem The Catherine the Great Egg is on display now at Hillwood Museum as part of their latest exhibition, Faberge Rediscovered. The exhibition promises to enlighten visitors as to the most recent discoveries about Faberge's works. Imperial Easter Eggs
Catherine the Great Faberge Easter Egg, (aka, the Grisaille Egg), 1914
The Egg "Catherine the Great" (also known as "Grisaille") was made for the Dowager Empress Maria Fedorovna. That year, 1914, work on both Imperial Easter eggs was overseen by Ivan Antoni. From an entry in a Faberge account book: "Large Egg of chased quatre-couleur gold with fretwork in the style of Louis XVI over an enamel ground with.
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Nov 15, 2017 2:55PM A curator from the Royal Collection examines a mosaic egg, made by Russian jeweller and goldsmith Peter Carl Faberge which was originally commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II in 1914 and acquired by Queen Mary in 1933. Photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA Images via Getty Images.
The SoCalled 1914 CATHERINE THE GREAT Fabergé IMPERIAL EASTER EGG
Catherine the Great Easter Egg, 1914 Gold, Enamel, Diamonds, Pearls 4 3/4 in | 12.1 cm Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens Washington Get notifications for similar works Want to sell a work by this artist? Sell with Artsy Artist Series Portraits of Artists and Sculptors 113 available Portraits of Artists and Sculptors 113 available
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The violent Russian revolutions of 1917 saw the end of this extravagant tradition, with the czars overthrown, the Fabergé family fleeing Russia and many of the eggs confiscated by the Bolsheviks..
Catherine the Great Easter Egg by Fabergé, 1914 The Cather… Flickr
Yekaterina Alekseyevna Original name: Sophie Friederike Auguste, Prinzessin von Anhalt-Zerbst Born: April 21 [May 2, New Style], 1729, Stettin, Prussia [now Szczecin, Poland] Died: November 6 [November 17], 1796, Tsarskoye Selo [now Pushkin], near St. Petersburg, Russia (aged 67) Title / Office: empress (1762-1796), Russian Empire Notable Works:
Catherine the Great Easter Egg by Faberge c 1914. Made in gold
Faberge museum. After eggs, Faberge's human figures are the company's most beautifully crafted creations. These are complex mosaics made from Russian gems: quartzite, sandstone, jasper and.
House of Fabergé, ‘Catherine the Great Easter Egg’, 1914 Catherine
The Catherine the Great Easter egg was commissioned by Czar Nicholas II for his mother. The Faberge workshop crafted it out of diamonds, pearls, silver, gold, platinum and a shimmering opalescent.
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Details Title: Catherine the Great Easter Egg Creator: Fabergé (firm); Henrik Immanuel Wigström (workmaster); Vasilii Ivanovich Zuev (miniatures) Creator Lifespan: 1846/1920 Creator Nationality:.
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CATHERINE THE GREAT EASTER EGG Made from: Gold -- diamonds -- pearls -- enamel -- silver -- platinum -- mirror Made in: Saint Petersburg, Russia Date made: 1914 Size: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm) Detailed information for this item Catalog number: 11.81.1-2 Class: GOLD Signature marks:
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Catherine the Great: Also known as the "Grisaille". The egg was made by Henrik Wigström, "Fabergé's last head workmaster". It was given to Maria Feodorovna by her son Nicholas II. Its surprise (now lost) was "a mechanical sedan chair, carried by two blackamoors, with Catherine the Great seated inside". Hillwood Museum, Washington, D.C., US 1915
The SoCalled 1914 CATHERINE THE GREAT Fabergé IMPERIAL EASTER EGG
The Catherine the Great egg, also known as Grisaille Egg and Pink Cameo Egg, is an Imperial Fabergé egg, one of a series of fifty-four jewelled enameled Easter eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian Imperial family . History
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CATHERINE THE GREAT EASTER EGG Made from: Gold -- diamonds -- pearls -- enamel -- silver -- platinum -- mirror Made in: Saint Petersburg, Russia Date made: 1914 Size: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm) Detailed information for this item Catalog number: 11.81.1-2 Class: GOLD
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The Catherine the Great egg, also known as Grisaille Egg and Pink Cameo Egg, is an Imperial Fabergé egg, one of a series of fifty-four jewelled enameled Easter eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian Imperial family.. It was an Easter 1914 gift for Tsarina Maria Feodorovna from her son Tsar Nicholas II, who had a standing order of two Easter eggs every year, one.
Catherine the Great Easter Egg — Dumbarton Oaks
Height: 12,1 cm. The Catherine the Great Egg, also known as Grisaille Egg, and Pink Cameo Egg, is made of quatre-couleur gold, pink grisaille and opaque white enamel, portrait diamonds, rose-cut diamonds, seed pearls and velvet lining. The Surprise (lost), a mechanical sedan chair, was made of gold, enamel and probably diamonds.
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CNN — For over a century, the name Faberge has evoked wealth, opulence and the world's most extravagant Easter eggs. The small, intricately decorated objets d'art - which Russia's royal House.