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The '''[[Consuelo Vanderbilt|Duchess of Marlborough]] egg''' (also known as the '''Pink Serpent egg'''<ref name=Mieks>[http://mieks.com/Faberge2/Other-Eggs/Duchess_of_Marlborough_Egg.htm Mieks Fabergé Eggs<!-- Bot generated title -->]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>) is a [[Jewellery|jewelled]] [[Vitreous enamel|enameled]] [[Easter egg]] made by [[Michael Perchin]] under the supervision of the Russian jeweller [[Peter Carl Fabergé]] in 1902.<ref name=TreasuresofImperialRussia>[http://www.treasuresofimperialrussia.com/e_chap15_duchess.html Faberge - Treasures of Imperial Russia<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
The '''[[Consuelo Vanderbilt|Duchess of Marlborough]] egg''' (also known as the '''Pink Serpent egg'''<ref name=Mieks>[http://mieks.com/eng/Other-Eggs/Duchess_of_Marlborough_Egg.htm Mieks Fabergé Eggs]</ref>) is a [[Jewellery|jewelled]] [[Vitreous enamel|enameled]] [[Easter egg]] made by [[Michael Perchin]] under the supervision of the Russian jeweller [[Peter Carl Fabergé]] in 1902.<ref name=TreasuresofImperialRussia>[http://www.treasuresofimperialrussia.com/e_chap15_duchess.html Faberge - Treasures of Imperial Russia<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


The Duchess of Marlborough egg is the only large [[Fabergé egg]] to have been commissioned by an American, and is inspired by a [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]] clock with a revolving dial. It is similar to the earlier imperial ''[[Blue Serpent Clock (Fabergé egg)|Blue Serpent Clock egg]]''.<ref name=TreasuresofImperialRussia/>
The Duchess of Marlborough egg is the only large [[Fabergé egg]] to have been commissioned by an American, and is inspired by a [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]] clock with a revolving dial. It is similar to the earlier imperial ''[[Blue Serpent Clock (Fabergé egg)|Blue Serpent Clock egg]]''.<ref name=TreasuresofImperialRussia/>

Revision as of 05:31, 7 March 2015

Duchess of Marlborough
Michael Perchin

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Michael Perchin under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1902.[2]

The Duchess of Marlborough egg is the only large

Louis XVI clock with a revolving dial. It is similar to the earlier imperial Blue Serpent Clock egg.[2]

History

The egg was made for Consuelo Vanderbilt, who became the Duchess of Marlborough when she married Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough in 1895.[2]

In 1902 the Duchess and her husband travelled to Russia, where they dined with

Nicholas II of Russia, and visited his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna at the Anichkov Palace. During this visit the Duchess would have almost certainly seen the Dowager Empress' large collection of Fabergé, which perhaps inspired her to order this egg.[2]

The egg is believed to have cost over 5,000

rubles.[2]

After her divorce from the Duke of Marlborough, Vanderbilt donated the Duchess of Marlborough egg to a charity auction in 1926. The egg was bought by Ganna Walska, the second wife of Harold Fowler McCormick, chairman of the International Harvester Company of Chicago.[2] At the 1965 Parke-Bernet auction of her property, it was bought by Malcolm Forbes. It was the first of several Fabergé Easter eggs that Forbes purchased.[2]

In 2004 it was sold as part of Forbes Collection to

Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
.

References

  1. ^ Mieks Fabergé Eggs
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Faberge - Treasures of Imperial Russia
  3. ^ Energy Tribune

External links

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