Blue Constellation Egg

decorative egg [1917]

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The Blue Constellation Egg was one of two Imperial eggs being created by Peter Carl Fabergé in 1917 when the Russian Revolution occurred. These decorative eggs, known as Fabergé eggs, were elaborate creations made for the Romanov family as Easter gifts. The Blue Constellation Egg featured a glass shell resting on a base of rock crystals designed to look like clouds. The Imperial eggs were a tradition started in 1885 by Tsar Alexander III for his wife and continued by his son, Nicholas II, until the revolution halted production.12

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…encrusted mechanical elephant) and the Blue Constellation Egg (glass shell resting on a base of rock crystals fashioned as clouds)—when the February Revolution occurred. Nicholas abdicated in March, and the eggs were never delivered. The House of Fabergé was soon seized by the revolutionary government, and Fabergé himself fled to…
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…encrusted mechanical elephant) and the Blue Constellation Egg (glass shell resting on a base of rock crystals fashioned as clouds)—when the February Revolution occurred. Nicholas abdicated in March, and the eggs were never delivered. The House of Fabergé was soon seized by the revolutionary government, and Fabergé himself fled to…
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