Blue Egg with Pearl (Box)
Size: 50x85mm
Weight: 224g

Carl Fabergé was one of four sons of a French jeweler Gustav Fabergé. He became the head of his father's business in 1870 and became the most famous jeweler of Russia and of the whole world.

All Fabergé's works were notable for their refined decoration and polychromy. He used gold and silver, enamel and precious stones and other materials that made his works really unique and splendid.

Fabergé's Easter eggs are his most famous works that are notable for their particular luxury and decorations refinement. Russian Emperor Alexander III was the first to present this egg for his wife Maria Fyodorovna as a gift for Easter in 1885. Since that time it became a tradition at the Russian court.

Archives say that Carl Faberge made only a few of his famous works (including his world-known imperial Easter eggs created for the Russian imperial court). He employed the most talented and skillful jewelers, engravers and painters and the only thing he did himself was walking round his workshop with a small hammer and looking after his employees' work. If he didn't like the product he struck it with this hammer and broke it to pieces. If he liked it, he immediately attracted everybody's attention to this chefs-d'oeuvre. Now, we cannot say for sure, was it true or not. But of course, one person could not create hundreds of real masterpieces made in his workshops all over the world.

Unfortunately, many of Faberge's workshops products disappeared after the Revolution of 1917. Nowadays they are the objects of passionate collecting. And souvenirs and gifts in Faberge style are becoming more and more popular.