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Faberge pieces
dp5486:
I was reading in another thread about a Faberge frame that Nicholas II gave to Xenia and she later found it, quite by surprise in the collection of Queen Mary. Does anyone have a photo of this frame, which from what I read contained Xenia's wedding picture?
Thanks!
Lucien:
The TEFAF,the annual Art and Antique fair in Maastricht,The Netherlands started last night.One of the items a gilded silver and guilloché frame by Fabergé,a gift from Grand Duke Michael Michaelovitch to his wife Countess Sophie von Merenberg at their tenth wedding anniversary.
Jewellery,item 10.
http://www.tefaf.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=4&tabindex=3
grandduchessella:
Faberge egg fetches $18.5 million at auction
LONDON — A rare enamel-and-gold Faberge egg that had been in the Rothschild banking family for more than a century sold for record-setting $18.5 million at auction Wednesday. The sale of the translucent pink egg topped with a diamond-studded cockerel was a record for a Faberge work of art, Christie's auction house said.
The price also broke the record for Russian artwork, excluding paintings, easily beating the $9.6 million paid for a Faberge egg in New York in 2002, Christie's said....The Rothschild Faberge Egg is one of no more than 12 such pieces known to have been made to imperial standards for private clients, Christie's said.
The Faberge egg sold Wednesday originally was acquired by Edouard Ephrussi, who represented the Rothschild family's oil interests in Baku, in modern-day Azerbaijan. Ephrussi's sister, Beatrice, gave the piece as an engagement gift to Edouard de Rothschild and Germaine Halphen, who married in 1905. Christie's said it had remained in the family since.
The piece was sold to a private Russian bidder after 10 minutes of bidding, Christie's said."
The translucent pink egg contains a clock and animated cockerel and had never been seen in public before the sale was announced.
Alixz:
The collection that once belonged to Forbes looks magnificent in the link to the book that they are trying to sell.
The last time I saw the collection in person I thought I was very dirty and dusty. I hope that the new owner will take better care of the collection and have it cleaned on a regular basis. I remember a lot of dust and webs on the Chanticleer Egg and the Orange Tree Egg.
I think I saw the collection at least three times over the years and even with the dust, it was still an amazing and beautiful sight.
Faberge was unparalleled in his designs and executions of those designs. I don't think that Cartier ever came close. Just my humble opinion.
Alexander_IV:
Edit: found a better topic and moved it there
http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php/topic,8701.msg305293.html#msg305293
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