AR / ITEM / 00100448
Red Cross Triptych Egg
Red Cross Triptych Egg, an Imperial Easter egg made by the House of Fabergé in 1915 and presented to Alexandra Feodorovna.
- Date
- 1915
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Record
The House of Fabergé made the Red Cross Triptych Egg as an Imperial Easter egg in 1915. Nicholas II of Russia commissioned the egg as an Easter gift. The egg was presented to Alexandra Feodorovna for Easter in 1915. The Imperial egg was made by Fabergé in Saint Petersburg (renamed Petrograd in 1914). The Fabergé Research location table recorded this egg with Cleveland Museum of Art. In this record, Cleveland Museum of Art 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, Alexandra Feodorovna as recipient, and Saint Petersburg as the place of manufacture.
- Origin
- Saint Petersburg
In the Tapestry
- Associated with · 1915
- Nicholas II of RussiaA
- Presented to · 1915
- Alexandra FeodorovnaA
- Made in · 1915
- Saint PetersburgA
- Made by · 1915
- House of FabergéA
- Owned by · documented 2015 or later
- Cleveland Museum of ArtC
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
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