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Egg-and-Hen Egg
House of Carl Fabergé
Workmaster: Erik August Kollin
This egg was long considered the first imperial Easter egg made by Fabergé (it is now universally agreed that it was the Hen Egg, dated 1885, formerly in the Forbes Collection). Even if not by Fabergé but perhaps by a German goldsmith, this ingenious object comprises a gold and platinum egg, a hen on a small nest, a crown, and a diamond and emerald ring. The crown holds a pendant, now lost.
[Wolfram Koeppe, 2011]
