A rare 1913 imperial ‘winter egg’ commissioned for Nicholas II has been sold for $30.2 million
A Fabergé Imperial ‘Winter Egg’ commissioned for Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II, sold for a record £22.9 ($30.2 million) at Christie’s in London on Tuesday, the auction house has announced.
According to Christie’s, the public sale lasted about three minutes, and the buyer was not identified.
The 1913 egg was made for Nicholas II to give his mother, Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna, as an Easter gift. It was carved from rock crystal and decorated with platinum and rose-cut diamond-set snowflake motifs, the auction house said, with a base designed as…
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