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Faberge – The Imperial Coronation Egg

This is one of the 520 official 1992 replicas of the Imperial Coronation Egg, the best known and most popular of the 54 real Faberge eggs.

The original egg, created in 1897 by Faberge ateliers, is made from gold with translucent lime yellow enamel on guilloche 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 a rose diamond on its chest. This pattern was also drawn from the Coronation robe worn by the Empress. Fitted inside a velvet-lined compartment is a precise replica, less than four inches long, of the 18th-century Imperial coach that carried the Tsarina Alexandra to her coronation at Moscow's Uspensky Cathedral. It is now owned by one of the Russian oligarchs, Viktor Vekselberg.

This is a beautiful work of art. The egg is plated in yellow glaze with a 24k gold finish and Svarowski stones. It comes with the original blue lacquered wooden box. The egg and coach are in meticulous condition. The encasement shows some little signs of wear.
This is a very rare and most beautiful item. The egg was valued at more than USD 4000 in the early 2000s.