This Visiting Card box with clock, made in Faberge Style is beautiful additions to all dressing tables and can also be used as decorative pieces for the interiors.
This beautiful Faberge style visiting card box is made by Russian jeweller.
Creating Easter eggs with a surprise of precious metals had brought world fame to Karl Faberge’s jewellery firm. Already in 1906 Karl’s youngest son Nikolai opened the firm’s subsidiary in London. Although later, in 1917, the shop was closed, Nikolai stayed in London. In this city Nikolai’s son Teo was born, who continued than his father’s business. Teo Faberge is the only Karl Faberge’s grand-son living today. He works not only with precious metals, though he occupies himself with wood and ivory engraving and china paintings. In 1985 Teo Faberge started the work at St Petersburg Easter eggs collection.
Teo Faberge presented to St Petersburg State Museum of History two eggs from his collection: “St Petersburg” (1993) and “Kiev” (1996). Similar gifts were received by the State Ermitage (the egg “Moscow”, 1995), Reserve Museum Peterhof (the egg “Peterhof”, 1998) and State Reserve Museum Tsarskoye Selo (the egg “Alexander Palace”, 1999). The only daughter of Teo Faberge Sarah by family tradition had become a jewellery designer.
The egg “Neva”, the work of Karl Faberge’s great grand-daughter, is the third present of Faberge Fund to St Petersburg State Museum of History and Sarah’s first work, which has left Great Britain. Sarah herself could not attend at the ceremony of presentation, though her letter telling about the egg’s creation was read aloud by Philip Birkenstein.
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