Faberge Imperial Napoleonic Egg

2000, special millennial edition, the shell with translucent green enamel and 24K gold leafed guilloche, set with sixty-five Austrian crystals and surmounted with military trophies; the interior with a conforming six-panel folding screen with the crowned cipher of Empress Maria Feodorovna on one side, the other side with scenes of the Empress' regiment; the whole on a tripartite stand with scrolled feet, overall h. 5-1/2", w. 3".
Presented in its original blue velvet box with card of authenticity.

Together with a banner from the 1996 Faberge Exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art.



Notes: This extraordinary Faberge egg is a reproduction of the 1912 egg Czar Nicholas II gave to his mother, the Dowager Empress Marie, on the centennial anniversary of the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Bordino. The Empress kept the original egg at the Anichkov Palace. In 1917 it was confiscated during the Russian Revolution, and later sold in 1930. Today it is part of the Mathilda Gedding Gray Foundation Collection at the New Orleans Museum of Art.