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Fabergé Egg

 

Or rather, Fabergé and his red miniature egg pendant. It was crafted in Saint Petersburg, Russia, sometime between 1908 and 1917. The egg is enriched with a magnificent strawberry-red repetitive pattern called guilloché, a style for which Fabergé was famed. The enameling shows outstanding translucency and depth as it shimmers over the complex carved design underneath. And now, one of my quick digressions. The image you are all soon to see is a diptych with the strawberry image on the right and a 1890s black-and-white image of Gustav Fabergé and his wife Charlotte Jungstedt on the left. Gustav founded the House of Fabergé, which is now as famous as it was in 1842 in Saint Petersburg. So, now you all know who you’re dealing with and what he and his wife looked like back then when.