A miniature enameled egg pendant in silver and purple on sterling. The piece is hallmarked in Cyrllic by Steven Wakeva, ca. 1908-1917. It is marked on the bail and measures approx. 1"H.
The House of Fabergé was a jewelry firm founded by the Russian jeweler Gustav Fabergé in 1842 in the Imperial Russian capital of Saint Petersburg. His son Peter Carl Fabergé greatly developed the business, and opened a Moscow branch in 1886. Further branches opened in Odessa (1890-1918), London (first at 415 Oxford Street 1904-1906, then 48 Dover Street 1907-1911 and lastly 173 New Bond Street 1911-1917) and Kiev (1906-1910). In 1916 the House of Fabergé was converted to a joint stock company. During World War I Fabergé's craftsmen were drafted and the workshops were obliged to produce shell castings and hand grenades. In 1917 Fabergé transferred the firms management to his employees. Bolsheviks closed down the House of Fabergé in 1917 after the October Revolution. In 1918, Peter Carl Fabergé fled first to Berlin and later to Wiesbaden and Switzerland, where he died on September 24, 1920. In 1924, two of Carl Fabergé's sons, Eugene, the eldest, and Alexander founded a new firm in Paris, "Fabergé & Cie", with the aim of continuing production where their father had left off in 1917.
100/200 Sold $241.50
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