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Christie’s to Auction Fabergé ‘Winter Egg’ in London With Estimate Above £20 Million

Only a handful of Imperial eggs remain in private hands, underscoring the sale’s rarity for top collectors.

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Overview

  • The Winter Egg will be offered on December 2 during Christie’s Classic Week in London, marking its third appearance at the auction house.
  • Christie’s has set an estimate of more than £20 million for the piece.
  • Commissioned in 1913 by Emperor Nicholas II as an Easter gift for Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, the egg is among Fabergé’s most elaborate imperial works.
  • After transfer to the Kremlin Armoury following the 1917 revolution, it was sold by Soviet authorities, later acquired by Wartski in London, and sold to a British collector in 1934.
  • Believed lost from 1975 to 1994, it set world-record prices at Christie’s in 1994 and again in 2002, and is famed for rock crystal carving, interior frost engraving, and rose‑cut diamond platinum snowflake motifs.