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The Red Cross with Imperial portraits egg (or the Imperial Red Cross Easter Egg) is a jewelled and enameled Easter egg made by Henrik Wigström (1862–1923) [1] under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1915, for Nicholas II of Russia, who presented the Fabergé egg to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, in the same year.
The Red Cross with Triptych egg, also known as Red Cross Triptych egg [1] or Red Cross Egg with Resurrection Triptych, [2] is an enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé in 1915, for Nicholas II of Russia. Nicholas II presented the Fabergé egg to his wife Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna on Easter ...
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". [34] Hillwood Museum, Washington, D.C., US 1915: Red Cross ...
Order of St. George (Fabergé egg) Peacock (Fabergé egg) Pelican (Fabergé egg) Peter the Great (Fabergé egg) Pine Cone (Fabergé egg) Red Cross with Imperial Portraits; Red Cross with Triptych (Fabergé egg) Renaissance (Fabergé egg) Resurrection Egg; Revolving Miniatures Egg; Romanov Tercentenary (Fabergé egg) Rose Trellis (Fabergé egg)
In the following decades, Minshall acquired many more Fabergé works, including the Lapis Lazuli and Red Cross with Triptych eggs. [ 8 ] [ 2 ] Following her death in 1965, Minshall's private collection was given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, who proceeded to display over 60 items from her collection in a special exhibition. [ 9 ]
The Nécessaire egg is an Imperial Fabergé egg, one of a series of fifty-two jeweled eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian Imperial family.It was crafted and delivered to the then Tsar of Russia, Alexander III who presented it to his wife, Maria Feodorovna on Easter day 1889.
Behind rising egg prices and shortages is a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), known as H5N1, that killed 13.2 million commercial egg-laying hens in the month of December alone ...
The egg is made from gold with translucent lime yellow enamel on a guilloché field of starbursts and is in reference to the cloth-of-gold robe worn by the Tsarina at her Coronation. It is trellised with bands of greenish gold laurel leaves mounted at each intersection by a gold Imperial double-headed eagle enamelled opaque black, and set with ...