Kutsak said the project was derailed by the ... egg's styling as "eclectic." The amateur art history sleuth rejects that. "Why would Faberge do the egg in two different styles?" ...

One piece, the "Coronation Egg," presented by Tsar Nicholas II to his wife at Easter 1897, would have become the most expensive piece of decorative art to be ... fears the project could break ...

Vekselberg is the biggest individual owner of Fabergé eggs, having bought nine of them ... One of Gilbertson's earliest projects: purchase the Fabergé trademark and intellectual property rights ...

All of his belongings were destroyed, along with his entire collection of unsold works except for one—a Fabergé egg ... like works of art, too. And so, his Priority Box project was born.

Mohr-Mayer’s egg was as lavish as those once commissioned ... “Later I was told that these crafts could only survive in the West,” he says, “because the Communists destroyed luxury ...

"Faberge eggs - this is part of Russian history and Russian culture," he told me. Mr Vekselberg has created a cultural foundation, the Link of Times, to look after his art. One of the foundation ...

In 1885, Tsar Alexander III of Russia sparked a royal tradition that would become one of the most opulent and iconic legacies in the history of art ... The first Fabergé Egg —an exquisite ...

his appreciation for fine art prevented him from pawning or destroying their inheritance. This inheritance—which included the Fabergé eggs—remained at the Armory until, in 1927, Lenin’s ...

Anthony Philips, international director of silver and Russian works of art at Christie's, said the Rothschild Faberge Egg "encapsulates every characteristic that defines a true masterpiece".

A Fabergé surprise egg has sold for £7,000 at an auction in Shrewsbury. Halls Fine Art said it had belonged to the late owner of Wirswall Hall, Whitchurch. The Honey Egg is made from 18-carat ...