| 词条 | Bay Tree (Fabergé egg) |
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| name = Bay Tree | image = The Bay tree egg.jpg | caption = | year_delivered = 1911 | made_for = Tsar Nicholas II |recipient=Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna | owner = The Link of Times Foundation, Russia | acquisition_year = 2004 | workmaster = | materials = Gold, green and white enamel, nephrite, diamonds, rubies, amethysts, citrines, pearls and white onyx | height = 27.3 cm when closed, 30 cm when opened | width = | surprise_in_egg = Feathered songbird }} The Bay Tree egg (also known as the Orange Tree egg) is a jewelled nephrite and enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1911,[1] for Nicholas II of Russia who presented the egg to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, on 12 April 1911.[2] Its 1911 counterpart, presented to the Empress, is the Fifteenth Anniversary egg. SurpriseTurning a tiny lever disguised as a fruit, hidden among the leaves of the bay tree, activates the hinged circular top of the tree and a feathered songbird rises and flaps its wings, turns its head, opens its beak and sings.[1] HistoryBased on an 18th-century French mechanical orange tree,[3] it was incorrectly labeled as an orange tree for some time, but was confirmed as a bay tree after the original invoice from Fabergé was examined. Fabergé charged 12,800 rubles for the egg.[1] In 1917 the egg was confiscated by the Russian Provisional Government and moved from the Anichkov Palace to the Kremlin.[1] It was sold to Emanuel Snowman of the jewellers Wartski around 1927.[1] In 1934 Wartski sold it to Allan Gibson Hughes for £950, buying it back from his estate in 1939 after his death. The egg has a fitted case inscribed with the initials A. G. H. which is probably attributable to this period of ownership.[4] In 1947 it was sold by Sotheby's in London for £1,650 and then passed through several different owners, ending with Mrs. Mildred Kaplan. She sold it to Malcolm Forbes in 1965 for $35,000, equivalent to $212,634 at the time of the 2004 sale of the Forbes Collection to Viktor Vekselberg. Vekselberg purchased some nine Imperial eggs, as part of the collection, for almost $100 million [5] The egg is now part of the Victor Vekselberg Collection, owned by The Link of Times Foundation and housed in the Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. See also
References1. ^1 2 3 4 Faberge - Treasures of Imperial Russia {{Commons cat}}{{Fabergé egg}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Bay Tree (Faberge egg)}}2. ^Mieks Fabergé Eggs 3. ^[https://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/faberge/flevel_1/f8_outrageous.html Faberge Eggs - outrageous opulence] 4. ^Fabergé Eggs: A Retrospective Encyclopedia 5. ^Energy Tribune {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114065504/http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=681 |date=2007-11-14 }} 2 : Imperial Fabergé eggs|1911 works |
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