Fabergé

Bay Tree Easter Egg

House of Fabergé

1911

daqui

"In addition to the eggs with cockerel and hen, Carl Fabergé made an Easter egg for Maria Feodorovna with a mechanical bird of paradise with natural multicolored feathers. The court jeweler must have known that Maria Feodorovna loved birds and “nature and everything that is in it.” In the 1900s in the Anichkov Palace, her residence, there was a special room with an enormous cage “with innumerable tiny birds, which the empress loved greatly.”