AR / ITEM / 00100439
Catherine the Great Egg
Catherine the Great Egg, an Imperial Easter egg made by the House of Fabergé in 1914 and presented to Maria Feodorovna.
- Date
- 1914
- Collection
- Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
Plate not recorded
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Record
The House of Fabergé made the Catherine the Great Egg as an Imperial Easter egg in 1914. Nicholas II of Russia commissioned the egg as an Easter gift. The egg was presented to Maria Feodorovna for Easter in 1914. The Imperial egg was made by Fabergé in Saint Petersburg (renamed Petrograd in 1914). The Fabergé Research location table recorded this egg with Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens. In this record, Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens 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, Nicholas II of Russia as commissioner, Maria Feodorovna as recipient, and Saint Petersburg as the place of manufacture.
- Origin
- Saint Petersburg
In the Tapestry
- Associated with · 1914
- Nicholas II of RussiaA
- Presented to · 1914
- Maria FeodorovnaA
- Made in · 1914
- Saint PetersburgA
- Made by · 1914
- House of FabergéA
- Owned by · documented 2015 or later
- Hillwood Estate, Museum & GardensC
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
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, 'Catherine the Great Easter Egg'
Catalogue record
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