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Rare 1913 Fabergé Egg to Auction for Over £20M in London
The Winter Egg, one of only seven Imperial Easter Eggs in private hands, has twice set world records and is estimated to fetch over £20 million at auction.
- The Winter Egg is expected to sell for more than 20 million, with Christie's saying the estimate is in excess of £20 million when offered on December 2.
- Emperor Nicholas II commissioned the Winter Egg in 1913 for Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, with designer Alma Theresia Pihl and workmaster Albert Holmström creating the piece.
- Finely carved in rock crystal, the Winter Egg features an interior frost motif and rose-cut diamond-set platinum snowflake motifs, opening to reveal a double-handled trelliswork platinum basket filled with white-quartz anemones.
- With only six other Imperial Easter Eggs remaining in private collections, this sale offers collectors a rare chance to acquire a Fabergé piece that has twice set world auction records.
- Believed lost between 1975 and 1994, the Winter Egg resurfaced to sell for 7,263,500 Swiss francs in 1994 and later for 9,579,000 US dollars in 2002, after passing through Wartski of London and a 1934 British collector.
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