Another Faberge record

Hardly a surprise, given the strength of Russian buyers, the iconic nature of Imperial eggs, and the outstanding provenance of this example. Hardly expensive, either, in comparison to what is being thrown around nowadays for paintings from the 1980s and 1990s:

A Faberge egg made for the Rothschild banking family has sold at auction for a world record £8.9m.

The Rothschild egg made in 1902 is just one of 12 in public hands known to have been produced to standards required by the Russian Imperial family.

The gold and pink egg has a clock for a face and a diamond-encrusted cockerel which nods its head and flaps its wings on the stroke of each hour.

A private Russian art collector bought the clock at Christie's in London.

Posted by David on November 29, 2007 3:52 PM