Red Egg With Carriage
Size: 97x64mm
Weight: 390g
Easter has always been one of the most respected holidays in Russia and the tradition of presenting gifts with Easter eggs among them has remained through the long times. They were fanciful painted eggs as well as made of different materials such as wood, china or hard stones. But we can say that Carl Fabergé has turned Easter eggs into real works of art. And it's not mere chance that he became the Tsar's goldsmith who created 56 Easter eggs for the Russian Emperors' families.
But these unusual Easter gifts has become well-known and has won the fame of real jewelry wonder not just because he used precious metals, enamel and precious stones that he turned into flowers, leaves or intricate patterns on the eggs. His works are also well-known for their secrets - really small masterpieces like portrait miniatures, animals or birds, miniature figures hidden inside the egg.
Faberge revived many technical methods of stone treatment, using transparent guilloche enamels and multicolor gold that nobody have been able to reproduce since then. Using the color palette including about 124 colors and tints, Faberge's employees created new decorating effect and an astonishing play of light due to vertical and horizontal, herring-bone, scale and zigzag enameled color patterns every time they made their new egg. They brought this art to the top of artistic skills and elegance.
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.
Today, several companies produce Faberge egg replicas and other products in Faberge style that can be a wonderful and unique gift for the person you really appreciate. When creating these exquisite souvenirs, masters use copper, bras and tin alloys, gilding, enamel, engraving, Swarovski crystals and strasses incrustation and other skillful methods.
