A diamond-studded crystal Faberg\u00e9 egg that once belonged to Russia’s imperial family has sold for a record \u00a322.9m ($30.2m) in London.<\/p>\n
The Winter Egg – considered one of the legendary jeweller’s most beautiful creations – was bought by an anonymous bidder on Tuesday, Christie’s auction house said.<\/p>\n
It is decorated with 4,500 diamonds was commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II in 1913 as a present to his mother.<\/p>\n
The previous record for a Faberg\u00e9 egg was \u00a38.9m paid at auction in 2007.<\/p>\n
“Today’s result sets a new world auction record for a work by Faberg\u00e9, reaffirming the enduring significance of this masterpiece,” Christie’s Margo Oganesian was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n
The 8.2cm high (3.2in) egg was created by Carl Faberg\u00e9, based on the design of Alma Theresia Pihl, one of only two female workmasters at St Petersburg’s jewellery company.<\/p>\n
It was carved from rock crystal and decorated with rose-cut diamonds, as well as platinum snowflake motifs. <\/p>\n
The egg opens up to reveal a tiny basket of white quartz flowers inside. <\/p>\n
The Faberg\u00e9 house only ever made 50 eggs for Russia’s imperial Romanov family, and the Imperial Winter Egg is one of just seven left in private hands. <\/p>\n
The others are either missing or owned by institutions or museums.<\/p>\n
The eggs were made from 1885 until Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate in 1917.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A diamond-studded crystal Faberg\u00e9 egg that once belonged to Russia’s imperial family has sold for a record \u00a322.9m…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-321584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}