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| Keywords: House of Fabergé - Rose Trellis Egg - Walters 44501.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator House of Fabergé On April 22 1907 Tsar Nicholas II presented this egg to his wife Alexandra Fedorovna to commemorate the birth of the tsarevich Alexei Nicholaievich three years earlier Because of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 no Imperial Easter eggs had been produced for two years The egg contained as a surprise a diamond necklace and an ivory miniature portrait of the tsarevich framed in diamonds now lost Fabergé's invoice dated April 21 1907 listed the egg at 8 300 rubles 1907 gold enamel diamonds cm 7 7 5 9 accession number 44 501 31663 Tsar Nicholas II Anichkov Palace St Petersburg April 21 1907 by purchase Tsarina Alexandra Fedorovna Anichkov Palace St Petersburg April 22 1907 by gift Kremlin Armory 1917 transferred by the Kerensky government from the palace to the armory Alexandre Polovtsoff Paris Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1930 Objects of Vertu Precious Works of the Eighteenth Century The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 Fabergé in America The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco San Francisco; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond; New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans; The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland 1996-1997 Carl Fabergé Nationalmuseum Stockholm 1997 The Fabergé Menagerie The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Columbus Museum of Art Columbus; Portland Art Museum Portland 2003-2004 Artistic Luxury The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco San Francisco 2008-2009 place of origin St Petersburg Russia PD-old-auto 1923 Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Rose Trellis Fabergé egg | ||||
