Fabergé: Romance to Revolution will be held at the V&A Museum in London from November 20 till May 8 2022.
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Image: Wartski

The Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum announced that it has acquired the long-lost Fabergé Third Imperial Egg. It will go on display at their exhibition titled, “Fabergé: Romance to Revolution”.

The egg went missing in 1964 after being sold in an auction in New York. It later then popped up at a Midwest flea market in 2015, found by a scrap metal dealer who had bought it for its intrinsic gold and gem value. He then later contacted Kieran McCarthy of Wartski jewellers after randomly Googling the egg, who confirmed it was the missing egg.
The Third Imperial Egg will go on display alongside the other Fabergé eggs that once belonged to the Romanovs. A few of the eggs going on display are The Peacock Egg and The Tercentenary Egg.

Image: V&A Museum

The Peacock egg will be on display for the first time in 10 years. The Peacock Egg is a rock crystal egg and it is finely engraved with rocaille and has an enamelled gold peacock automaton inside the egg.

Also on show for the first time, are a pair of human sculptures, a rarity as it is believed that Fabergé had created less than 50 in his lifetime. The statues are of the private bodyguards of the Dowager Empress and Tsarina. The two statues had been confiscated and separated after the Russian Revol...