I had intended to include this in the April 2 post "Some Of The Fabergé Eggs We've Looked At Over The Years" but thought that since it commanded the highest price at auction for any of the eggs, to do a stand-alone.
From Christie's, 10 November 2025:
Gifted by Emperor Nicholas II to the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna on Easter Day, 1913: the Winter Egg
Adorned with more than 4,000 diamonds, and opening to reveal wood anemones finely carved from white quartz, the Winter Egg is among the most lavish and artistically inventive of the 50 imperial eggs made by the House of Fabergé. It comes to auction in London on 2 December
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....MUCH MORE, this is big-budget marketing.
It went off as Lot #7. Here's Christie's with provenance, details and the rest of the lots:
The Winter Egg and Important Works by Fabergé from a Princely Collection
And at ARTnews, December 3, 2025:
Fabergé Egg, ‘Mona Lisa of the Decorative Arts,’ Sells for Record-Breaking $30.2 M.
A rare Fabergé egg created from crystal and adorned with diamonds sold for £22.9 million (around $30.2 million) on Tuesday at Christie’s London, where the price broke the record as the highest ever for a Fabergé egg at auction. The sale was the top billing in “The Winter Egg and Important Works by Fabergé from a Princely Collection,” whose 48 lots brought in a total of £27.8 million ($37.1 million).
The so-called Winter Egg was created for Russia’s imperial family, one of 50 such lavish creations commissioned between 1885 and the Russian Revolution in 1917. As reported in The Art Newspaper (TAN), seven are thought to have been lost, and seven remain in private hands, outside of institutions....
....MUCH MORE
