Product Description
This product is a copy of the jewelry egg "Egg with a lattice and Roses", one of the fifty-two imperial Easter eggs made by the company of Karl Faberge for the Russian imperial family. The egg was created by order of Nicholas II in 1907, who gave it to his wife Alexandra Feodorovna on the third anniversary of the birth of Tsarevich Alexei. It is currently in the Walters Art Museum in the United States.
The original egg is covered with pale green enamel and decorated with a diamond lattice and rosebuds covered with matte, light and dark pink enamel, with emerald green leaves. Large diamonds are glued to the top and bottom of the egg. The lower diamond has the inscription "1907". Presumably, there was a monogram on the top diamond, which has not been preserved to this day. Our product uses an alloy of cold metals, the lattice and roses are decorated with Czech rhinestones, the background is covered with cold enamel and can be of four colors.
Currently, the surprise of the original is lost, but according to research, it was a diamond medallion with a portrait of Tsarevich Alexei, made in watercolor on ivory. Our craftsmen placed a clock inside the egg in a beautiful openwork frame decorated with large Czech rhinestones. Thus, the egg will help its owner not only to save jewelry and not large valuables, but also will remind you of the time.
Emperor Nicholas II presented a jewelry Easter egg to his wife Alexandra Feodorovna on Easter 1907 in honor of the third anniversary of the birth of Tsarevich Alexei. After the revolution, along with other treasures of the imperial family, it was confiscated by the Bolsheviks. In 1920, it was kept by a Russian emigrant in Paris, Alexander Polovtsov. In 1930, it was purchased by Henry Walters of Baltimore (USA). The egg was later bequeathed to the Walters Art Museum and has been on permanent display there since 1952.