Faberge’s ‘Winter Egg’ is up for auction
. The famed 1913 ‘Winter Egg’ returns to the auction block in December, offering what experts believe may be one of the last opportunities for private collectors to secure a genuine Imperial Faberge masterpiece as global availability continues to shrink sharply. Created for Russia’s imperial family and long regarded as one of the most extraordinary works of Peter Carl Faberge’s St Petersburg workshop, the egg is expected by Christie’s to fetch £20 million, with experts citing its rarity and exquisite craftsmanship. The jeweler was one of only 50 Imperial Eggs commissioned between 1885 and 1916 by Tsars Alexander III and
