Faberge egg breaks the price record by Daniela Simkova

A Faberge gold-and-enamel egg, which has been in ownership of the Rothschild baking family for 100 hundred years, broke the price record of $18.6 million at the Christie's auction house. Peter Carl Faberge made this incredible piece of Russian art for the Russia's imperial family. His first assigned translucent egg was made for the Empress Maria Fedorovna as a Easter gift from her husband Russian Czar Alexander III. The empress loved this egg that encouraged czar to make an order to Faberge Company every single Easter since then. Faberge Company produced more than 50 of these translucent eggs for the Russia's imperial family since 1885, until the Russian Revolution had started in the year of 1917. A Faberge pink egg has a clock and cockerel coverd by diamonds. Cockerel does its little preformance. It pops up every hour and flaps its wing and nods its head, which lasts about 15 seconds. Christie's said: "The Rothschild Faberge egg is an extraordinary work of art, and we are extremely pleased that it has realised a record price which reflects its absolute quality." A Faberge egg, originally a gift from Beatrice Ephrussi to her fiance, was sold to a Russian auctioneer in short time of 10 minutes.

by Daniela Simkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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