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Few objects are more luxurious and famous than the Faberge egg. Much imitated but never equal to the original, the real Faberge series of works consisted of 50 Easter eggs, created for the Russian imperial family.
The company was founded in 1842 by Gustav Faberge, a master goldsmith, who opened a shop in St. Petersburg.
It was his sons, Peter Carl and Agathon, who made Faberge a household name in the 1880s, combining business decisions with technical and artistic expertise. Tsar Alexander III commissioned the first imperial egg for his wife, Maria Feodorovna, in 1885.
Only 43 of these imperial eggs are known today, the rest having been lost to time and revolution. Most are in museums around the world, while only seven remain in private hands. One of them, the Winter Egg, is being auctioned at Christie's as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Commissioned in 1913 by Nicholas II as a gift for his mother, Empress Maria Feodorovna, it is expected to fetch over €22 million at auction. That would break the previous record set by the 2007 sale of the Rothschild Faberge egg for €10 million (adjusted for inflation, that would be around €17 million today).
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