1907 The Rose Trellis Egg

Alexandra Feodorovna

Purchase price 8,300 rubles

The Emperor Nicholas II presented this jeweled Easter egg to this wife Aleksandra Fedorovna at Easter of 1907 in celebration of the third birthday of the Tsesarevich Aleksey. 

The Egg is enameled in light green, its body applied with a lattice of rose-cut diamonds and roses in pink enamel with leaves of green enamel. A rosette of small rose-cut diamonds with a large diamond at its center crowns the Egg. At the bottom is another rosette of small rose-cut diamonds encircling a portrait diamond with the year 1907 underneath. The Egg rests on a stand of gilded silver wire.

The surprise is lost. According to the invoice for this Egg, it contained a diamond medallion with a portrait of the Tsesarevich Aleksey Nikolaevich, painted in watercolors on ivory. 

The Egg was purchased by Henrey Walters from Alexander Polovtsov in 1930.

In the collection of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

http://art.thewalters.org/detail/31663/rose-trellis-egg/