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The Third Imperial Egg

A jewelled gold egg by Carl Faberge the Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia, given by Tsar Alexander III of Russia to his wife Marie Feodorovna to celebrate Easter 1887.

Description
The egg is reeded yellow gold, mounted with a rose diamond set pushpiece, it opens to reveal a clock with a Vacheron Constantin movement, the egg rested on a sapphire and diamond set gold stand decsrated with swags.

The egg is visible in archival photographs of the Von Dervis exhibtion of the Russian Imperial Family's treasures in St.Peterburg in 1902. It was variously described as an...

Easter egg with clock, decorated with diamonds, sapphires and rose-cut diamonds - 2160 roubles

Gold egg with clock with diamond pushpiece on gold pedestal with 3 sapphires and rose-cut diamond roses

Gold egg with clock on diamond stand (?) on gold pedestal with 3 sapphires and rose-cut diamonds

Location
The egg's current whereabouts are unknown and is presumed lost. It was last sold at auction in New York by Parke Bernet as lot 259of their sale on the 6th & 7th March 1964. Parke Bernet did not recognised the origin of the egg and catalogued it as a 'Gold Watch in Egg-form case on wrought three tone gold stand set with jewels'. ==Missing eggs==

Of the fifty Imperial Easter Eggs completed and supplied by Faberge to Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II the whereabouts of forty two are known. Evidence exists to suggest three of the missing eight eggs survived the Russian Revolution, they are this egg 1887, the Cherub with Chariot Egg 1888 and the Necessaire Eggof 1889.