Green Box with Violet Lines
Size: 168x114x75mm
Weight: 1785g

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.

All these eggs were real works of art and were ordered as gifts for the Emperors' families or rich people. The most famous among them are the eggs he created for Alexander III and Nicholas II and for a goldmines owner Alexander Kelch.

All these eggs were exquisite and quite expensive. They were mostly made of precious metals and decorated with enamel and gem stones. Sometimes the jewelers also experimented with non-traditional materials like wood or crystal. All of them were a kind of box containing different surprises.

The eggs were made of gold, silver, precious stones. It took for about a year to make each of these exquisite gifts. They were all preserved in special boxes of saves and were drawn from there only for displaying at Easter. But these eggs have become famous as valuable pieces of jewellery. They are famous for their intricate wind-up mechanisms and new constructing solutions. For example, a usual bell could turn into nephrite tortoise with nodding head-button or the clock hand was immovable while the clock dial was turning round.

The most astonishing thing in all Faberge's works was their surprising functionality: the animals and birds could move their wings and tails, nod their heads and even utter some sounds, carriage doors could open and wheels could turn round.