1888 The Cherubs With Chariot Egg

Maria Feodorovna

Purchase price: 2,100 rubles.

The Imperial Easter Egg “Cherubs and Chariot” is presently considered lost. Very little about it is known. The original invoice for the Easter egg was divided into two line-items: “Cherub, pulling a chariot with egg — 1,500 rubles, cherub with a clock in a gold egg — 600 rubles.” In 1902 the Egg was displayed at the von Dervis exhibition: a reflection in a display case reveals a barely distinguishable outline of an cherub figurine and an egg set in a two-wheeled cart, or chariot.

Along with several Imperial Easter eggs, this article was sold abroad in the 1920s. A Lord and Taylor catalog for 1934 describes an item reminiscent of the Cherubs and Chariot Egg: “miniature silver amour holding wheelbarrow with Easter Egg, made by Fabergé, court jeweler.” After the exhibition no item matching the description has ever appeared on the antiques market.

Whereabouts currently unknown.