Duchess of Marlborough (Fabergé egg)
- Duchess of Marlborough (Fabergé egg)
The Duchess of Marlborough egg (also known as the Pink Serpent egg [ [http://mieks.com/Faberge2/Other-Eggs/Duchess_of_Marlborough_Egg.htm Mieks Fabergé Eggs ] ] ) is a jewelled enameled Easter egg made by Michael Perchin under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1902 ][ [http://www.treasuresofimperialrussia.com/e_chap15_duchess.html Faberge - Treasures of Imperial Russia ] ] .]The Duchess of Marlborough egg is the only large Fabergé Easter egg to have been commissioned by an American, and is inspired by a Louis XVI clock with a revolving dial. It is similar to the 1887 "Blue Serpent Clock egg". 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. 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. At this visit the Duchess would have almost certainly seen the Dowager Empress' large collection of Fabergé, perhaps inspiring her to order this egg. This egg is believed to have cost over 5,000 rubles. [ ]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. [ At the 1965 Parke-Bernet auction of her property, it was bought by Malcolm Forbes. It was the first Fabergé Easter egg that Forbes purchased. ]In 2004 it was sold as part of Forbes Collection to Viktor Vekselberg. Vekselberg purchased some nine Imperial eggs, as part of the collection, for almost $100 million. [ [http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=681 Energy Tribune ] ]
ee also
*Fabergé egg
*Egg decorating
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* [http://www.treasuresofimperialrussia.com/e_chap15_duchess.html A detailed article on the 'Duchess of Marlborough' egg] , from treasuresofimperialrussia.com
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