The Apple Blossom egg, also known as the Jade Chest egg, is a
Fabergé egg created in the workshop of
Peter Carl Fabergé
Peter Carl Fabergé, also known as Karl Gustavovich Fabergé (russian: Карл Гу́ставович Фаберже́, ''Karl Gustavovich Faberzhe''; 30 May 1846 – 24 September 1920), was a Russian jewellery, jeweller best known for the fam ...
for the wealthy Russian industrialist
Alexander Kelch
Alexander Ferdinandovich Kelch was a Russian nobleman who lived in St Petersburg at the end of the 19th century. He is remembered mainly as a patron of Fabergé, having commissioned the Kelch Gothic Revival silver service and seven eggs for his ...
who presented it to his wife as an Easter gift in 1901. Because it was not a gift from a Russian tsar to a tsarina, it is not considered an "imperial" Fabergé egg but rather, in this instance, is called one of the "Kelch" eggs. It is one of the largest such eggs ever created in Fabergé's workshop. It is also one of the very few Fabergé eggs which lies on its side rather than upright.
In November 1996 a man named Adulph Peter Goop, an art collector from Liechtenstein, purchased the egg at a Sotheby's auction. Then, in 2010, shortly before his death, Goop bequeathed the egg to the State of Liechtenstein which now holds the egg at its
Liechtensteinisches Landesmuseum in the city of
Vaduz.
See also
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Objet d'art
References
External links
Description at wintraecken.nl
Kelch Fabergé eggs
1901 works
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