2025-12-07 08:00
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2025-12-07 08:00
The London auction house Christie's announced that a Faberge crystal egg studded with diamonds was sold for £22.9 million. The previous sales record for a Faberge egg was £8.9 million, achieved at auction in 2007.
The bidding lasted only three minutes. The buyer remained anonymous.
A jewelry gem is the so-called Imperial Winter Egg, carved from rock crystal and decorated with 4.5 thousand diamonds with a rosette cut and platinum snowflake motifs. Inside there is a basket with white quartz flowers. The size of the artifact is 8.2 cm.
The egg was ordered by Tsar Nicholas II in 1913 as a gift for his mother, Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia.
The factory of the Russian jeweler Peter Carl Faberge produced only 50 eggs for the Tsarist Romanov family between 1885 and 1917.
The Winter Egg is one of seven in private hands. The rest remain the property of museums and public institutions or have been lost.
From London Marta Zabłocka (PAP)
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