Fabergé eggs
only fifty-seven left of the sixty-nine known
How Fabergé Eggs Became a Symbol of Easter in Art & Object (April 1, 2022).
When the czar Alexander III took the throne shortly after his father’s sudden death in 1881—accompanied by his wife, Maria Feodorovna, he unwittingly began a lavish Easter tradition within the Russian imperial court—the bedazzled egg.
Where can you see these eggs?
Kremlin Armoury Museum – The museum treasures include 10 Imperial Easter Eggs.
St. Petersburg, Russia. Fabergé Museum – Fifteen Easter Eggs
London, United Kingdom. Royal Collection of Queen Elizabeth II – three Imperial Easter eggs
And more
Here is the Imperial Egg Chronology.
Also of interest:
Some essential reading:
Habsburg, Géza von., Robert Steven Bianchi, and A. von. Solodkoff. Fabergé : Imperial Craftsman and His World. London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2000.
Pfeffer, Susanna., and Peter Carl Fabergé. Fabergé Eggs : Masterpieces from Czarist Russia. New York: H.L. Levin Associates, 1990.
Bainbridge, Henry Charles. Peter Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court and the Principal Crowned Heads of Europe, 1949.
Below is background of the Mosaic Egg (1914).
i used to have a friend who worked at the forbes building in downtown manhattan and they had a few eggs on display there, they are sort of the liberace of easter eggs (and just as fun to look at)
I don't know if the Hermitage in St Petersburg has a collection; I expected that they did, as it would be the most appropriate location. We had a memorable tour of the Hermitage during a cruise of the Baltic. It was memorable not for what we saw, but for what we didn't.
The tour guide was a diminutive Russian woman, who would stop the group a good 30 to 40 meters ahead of the object of interest and describe it in detail. We would then proceed at maximum speed until we were at least ten meters beyond the object. None of us had an opportunity to examine anything, a great disappointment. When we arrived at the collection of impressionist art, my favorite, I rebelled and stayed behind to look at the paintings. That was when I found that her temper was in inverse proportion to her size.
What she lacked in height she made up for in ill-temper. She got into repeated - and heated - arguments with other tour guides about who had access to a location. We stayed overnight in port; I told my wife to enjoy herself on Day Two and stayed on the ship alone.