During the Easter celebrations of 1887, Russian emperor Alexander III presented his wife Marie Feodorovna with a jewel-covered Easter egg containing a ruby pendant. The egg, designed by the renowned ...
They are some of the most exquisite objects ever created and, a century after the last Faberge Egg was crafted, in 1917, the tiny treasures continue to fascinate for both their beauty and the tragic ...
Easter eggs don't come more drop-dead opulent than this: Peter Carl Fabergé's jeweled masterpieces were designed for the Russian tsars to give to their wives and mothers – a royal riff on a much ...
HOUSTON -- A Faberge egg and the jeweled elephant designed to fit inside it are reunited for the first time in almost a century thanks to a loan from Queen Elizabeth II. A gallery that opened Monday ...
When the latter-day Romanov emperors wanted to impress the beloved women in their lives, they gifted Fabergé eggs. Between 1885 and the eve of the Russian Revolution in 1916, Alexander III and his son ...
In 1885, Tsar Alexander III landed on the perfect Easter gift for his wife, Empress Maria Feodorovna: a bespoke egg commissioned from Peter Carl Faberge, a master goldsmith of the jewelry company ...
If you did not have the opportunity to go on the great Fabergé Big Egg Hunt and track down the 260 eggs scattered around New York City, now is your chance to see them. Until tomorrow, the eggs will be ...
For the imperial families at the helm of Russia’s empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, even Easter eggs were sometimes made of diamonds. Between 1885 and 1916, the luxury jewelry firm ...
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 of Romanov ...
Fabergé Eggs are jeweled Easter eggs of staggering ingenuity and workmanship, designed by the Russian jeweler Carl Fabergé in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They were originally commissioned ...
In 1849, Duleep Singh, Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, gave Queen Victoria of England one of the most valuable gifts in history. The young king gifted the 186-carat Koh-i-Noor diamond to the British ...