Easter, time for eggs, but precious ones: the most famous are those conceived and created by Peter Carl Fabergé, a Russian craftsman of French origin, who worked for the tsars. If you pass through Houston, Texas, you can admire them at the Museum of Natural Science, where the McFerrin Collection is on display until December 31st. Among the pieces in the collection, in fact, there is one created by one of the most trusted goldsmiths of the Fabergè workshop, August Wilhelm Holmström. The egg on display was a gift from Tsar Alexander III to Tsarina Maria Feodorovna for Easter 1892. The surprise gift, however, is not found inside, but on the outside: 1,891 diamonds. The Tsarina was so pleased with this gift that Fabergé was appointed by Alexander as court jeweler and commissioned to prepare a gift for Easter every year, with the condition that each egg must be unique and contain a surprise. However, the Houston exhibition does not only include eggs (there are two in total on display, out of the 57 in total created by Fabergè), but offers another 350 precious objects. One of them is the tiara of Empress Josephine and a box of gold and diamonds.
