AR / ITEM / 00100478
Renaissance Egg
Renaissance Egg, an Imperial Easter egg made by the House of Fabergé in 1894 and presented to Maria Feodorovna.
- Date
- 1894
- Collection
- Fabergé Museum, Saint Petersburg
Plate not recorded
No photograph with documented reuse rights is held for this record.
Record
The House of Fabergé made the Renaissance Egg as an Imperial Easter egg in 1894. Alexander III of Russia commissioned the egg as an Easter gift. The egg was presented to Maria Feodorovna for Easter in 1894. The Imperial egg was made by Fabergé in Saint Petersburg (renamed Petrograd in 1914). The Fabergé Research location table recorded this egg with Fabergé Museum, Saint Petersburg. In this record, Fabergé Museum, Saint Petersburg is the latest publicly identified holder because the cited institutional or location source records the egg there. The documented connections used for this entry are the House of Fabergé as maker, Alexander III of Russia as commissioner, Maria Feodorovna as recipient, and Saint Petersburg as the place of manufacture.
- Origin
- Saint Petersburg
In the Tapestry
- Associated with · 1894
- Alexander III of RussiaA
- Presented to · 1894
- Maria FeodorovnaA
- Made in · 1894
- Saint PetersburgA
- Made by · 1894
- House of FabergéA
- Owned by · documented 2015 or later
- Fabergé Museum, Saint PetersburgC
Sources
- A
Fabergé Research Site, 'Fabergé Imperial Egg Chronology'
↗ View original record - B
Fabergé Research Site, 'Locations of the 50 Imperial Fabergé Eggs'
↗ View original record - C
.jpg)