#faberge eggs

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Alexander McQueen fall 2008 faberge egg purse has my heart🖤

[darksilvania]

Bug/Steel type gold filigree pokemon (No official names yet)

Originally the last evolution was an adoptable but nobody purchased it so I turned it into a whole line. When I posted them on twitter originally I made this pic with all the references.

First stage is based on a Golden Tortoise Beetle First evolution is based on a mix of the Urodidae Moth Cocoon and the Rising Cross Fabergé Egg Last evolution is based on the Azalea Lace Bug

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*Eggs not included.

[eyesfullofmoon]

Lucinda Hollingsworth with a Fabergé Egg. Photo taken by John Rawlings for Vogue, Dec. 1958.

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FABERGÉ EGG

[the-last-tsar]

"For russian Orthodox Christians in the nineteenth century, no date in the religious calendar was more important than Easter day. The long fast of Lent would have been strictly observed — no meat, milk, butter or eggs for over seven weeks — until the solemn celebrations of Holy Week built steadily to their joyful climax at a midnight service finishing early on Easter Sunday morning. Throughout the day itself, friends and family greeted each other with the traditional three kisses, and responded to the jubilant 'Christ is risen!' with a reply of equal certainty: 'He is risen indeed!' And then, in a ritual whose symbolism stretches back to pagan spring festivals, they would exchange eggs. So Tsar Alexander III was simply following tradition when, in 1885, he gave his beloved Tsarina, the popular Marie Fedorovna, an apparently unexciting white enamelled egg. About two and a half inches high, it had the size and appearance of a large duck egg, but with a gold band around its middle. Only when the Empress opened the Tsar's present did it reveal its true nature: like an elaborate Matrushka doll it contained a perfect yolk, made of gold; within that was a golden hen, sitting on a nest of golden straw; and inside the hen was a diamond miniature of the imperial crown, concealing a tiny ruby pendant. Every detail was exquisitely rendered — the craftsmanship unparalleled, the creativity inspired. It was the first egg made by Carl Faberge for the Russian court."

Faberge's Eggs: One Man's Masterpieces and the end of an Empire | Toby Faber

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Trans-Siberian Railroad Egg (1900), created by Fabergé for Tsar Nicholas II to present to his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna. At this point, the railway was nearly complete, and the route was etched in silver around the outside of the egg.

The egg's surprise is a tiny clockwork model of a steam train, exact down to the labeling of each train car, the sides of which read “mail,” “ladies only,” “smoking,” “non-smoking,” and “chapel.” The included key could be used to wind the train. Author Géza von Habsburg has tried it and remarked, "the mechanism is a bit rusty, and it moves slowly but it's like a sort of old 'dinky toy.'"

The egg itself was constructed of gold, silver, enamel, onyx, and velvet for lining. The surprise was made of gold, platinum, rose-cut diamonds, rubies, and rock crystal (for the train windows).

Check out this video for a sense of its scale and how the train fit inside the egg:

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"So the waffles come with two eggs, any style--" "Any style?" "Yes, what kind do you want?" Me:

[mote-historie]

1892 Faberge Diamond Trellis Imperial Easter Egg. Art Nouveau. The Diamond Trellis egg is a jewelled enamelled Easter egg made by August Holmström under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1892. It is one of the Imperial Fabergé eggs, made for Alexander III of Russia, who presented it to his wife, the Empress Maria Feodorovna.

[rptv-jamesbond]

Fabergé Egg, from Octopussy

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So... did anyone notice that Bronya's earrings in HSR look like Faberge Eggs?

[eridonna]

The Fabergé eggs (яйцо Фаберже) were first created in 1885 when Emperor Alexander III commissioned Peter Carl Fabergé to create a spectacularly extravagant Easter gift to cheer up his young, homesick wife, Empress Maria Feodorovna.

After Alexander III's death, his son Nicholas II, presented a Fabergé egg to both his wife, Alexandra Fedorovna, and his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Fedorovna.

All 57 of the 69 know Fabergé eggs that survive today were manufactured under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé between 1885 and 1917.

Following the revolution and the nationalization of the Fabergé workshop in St. Petersburg by the Bolsheviks in 1918, the Fabergé family left Russia.

The imperial family's palaces were ransacked and their treasures were moved to the Kremlin Armoury on order of Vladimir Lenin.

The Fabergé trademark has since been sold several times, and several companies have retailed egg-related merchandise using the Fabergé name.

Currently, ten of the imperial Easter eggs are displayed at Moscow's Kremlin Armory Museum.

[marlenadisonne]

russian egg shaped caskets. that's it. that's the post.

[aka-tua-braindump]

Today at work, we went down a rabbit hole on Easter trivia.

The most baffling one?

The most expensive Faberge egg is valued at $33 million.

33 MILLION DOLLARS.

WHY???

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FABERGÉ EGGS - Happy Easter

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Realistic fashion style BJD’s – Marmite Sue

Aspotlight post about Marmite Sue BJD’s, detailing what makes these artist-created dolls unique and special. In this blog series, I will share information about some well-known and lesser-known ball jointed doll artists who work in resin in around 16″ (1/4 or 40-45cm) size, so theoretically these dolls would look good as a companion to the Popovy Sisters dolls I own. In following posts I will also talk about similar realistic fashion style BJD’s in materials such as porcelain and similar dolls in alternative sizes.

Poseability:

For the Dentelle and Natural type body, there was an option to order a spring system or elastic strung body. As I have the elastic strung body myself I can’t review the spring system advantages, but according to Marmite Sue, this was created for precise posing. My Noi has a bit of difficulty standing on her high heel feet, as they are sculpted in such a way that the doll almost stands on her tiptoes and her ancles have a tendancy to shift the doll’s weight forward. Her knees are ingeniously crafted with very delicate slots, so they gently lock when she is upright (as can be seen in the promo picture for her release in June 2012, below). The legs on her ball joints also have a little locking mechanism.

https://lunarreverie.com/realistic-fashion-style-bjds-marmite-sue/