Rare Faberge Egg Sells For Almost 9 Million Pounds
Posted November 28, 2007 12:00 pm.
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A pink Faberge egg cracked a world record when it was sold at an auction in London.
Faberge egg owned by the Rothschild banking family has become the most expensive Russian decorative artwork ever auctioned at a Christie’s International London sale.
The gold-and-enamel egg sold for 8 million pounds ($16.5 million), surpassing the $9.6 million for Faberge’s Imperial Winter Egg, an Easter present from Czar Nicholas II to his mother in 1913, which sold at Christie’s in New York in 2002.
“It’s going back to Russia,” said the buyer, Alexander Ivanov, who is head of the Russian National Museum, a private gallery in Moscow. “It is the best and most expensive work by Faberge ever,” said Ivanov, who is known for his Faberge collection.
Christie’s and rival Sotheby’s are holding their largest-ever Russian sales this week as they compete for buyers in one of the world’s fastest-growing art markets.
