The House of Fabergé

The House of Fabergé is a jewelry firm founded in 1842 in Imperial Russia and famed for designing elaborate jewel-encrusted Fabergé eggs for the Russian Tsars. 

Faberge Easter eggs that the Romanov family gave each other; They celebrated the holiday with eggs made of pure gold and platinum and set with precious jewels.

Russian jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé created the first Imperial egg in 1885, which Czar Alexander III commissioned as a gift for his wife: a white enameled egg with a yellow gold “yolk” inside. The yolk itself hinged open and contained a multicolored hen, also made of gold — which could, of course, also be opened, revealing a near-microscopic diamond crown. Needless to say, it was a hit, spawning decades of Imperial eggs painstakingly crafted by the country’s finest jewelers.

The nine eggs on show are among the most prized jewelled items in the world. Composed of precious metals, jewels and enamel they were commissioned by the Romanov family to celebrate religious events such as Russian Orthodox Easters between 1885 and 1916, prior to the Russian revolution

 "Lilies of the Valley" Fabergé egg, presented by Emperor Nicholas II to his wife on Easter (1898)

  

 Coronation egg, Golden Carriage

An exhibition containing nine of the Tsars’ Fabergé eggs is on display at the Vatican Museums. Titled Fabergé: the Sacred Images, the 140 exhibits on show include intricate jewellery made by the famed House of Fabergé in St Petersburg as well as items relating to the Russian imperial family.