The Rothschild Fabergé Clock Egg sale broke three world records...
De veiling van het Rothschild Fabergé Klok Ei heeft 3 wereldrecords gebroken...
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Drie wereldrecords werden woensdag 28 november in Londen gebroken toen het Fabergé Rothschild Klok Ei voor ruim € 12,5 miljoen werd verkocht. Deze verkoop vestigde nieuwe wereld veilingrecords voor de duurste klok ooit verkocht, het duurste Russische kunstwerk ooit (uitgezonderd schilderijen) en het duurste werk ooit gemaakt door Fabergé!
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Three world records were set Wednesday November 28, 2007 when the Fabergé Rothschild Clock Egg sold for almost £9million. The sale established records for the most expensive timepiece ever sold, the most expensive Russian artwork (excluding paintings) and the most expensive piece made by Fabergé.
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"A Faberge egg has sold at auction for almost £9m, a record for a Russian object of art..."
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The Rothschild Fabergé Sale in the papers! (Click here)
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Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- A Faberge egg owned by the Rothschild banking family became the most expensive lot ever purchased at a Russian art auction when it was sold in London.
The gold-and-enamel egg fetched £8 million ($16.5 million)* at Christie's International.
"It's going back to Russia,'' said the buyer, Alexander Ivanov, who is director of the Russian National Museum, a group of private Russian art collectors from Moscow." It's one of the most beautiful, valuable and most intricate Faberge eggs ever,'' said Ivanov, who is known for his Faberge collection.
Christie's and rival Sotheby's are holding their largest-ever Russian sales this week as they compete for buyers in one of the world's fastest-growing art markets. Eight years of economic growth have swollen the ranks of rich Russian collectors, fueling a 10-fold increase in prices of the nation's artworks since 2000. According to Forbes, Russia has at least 60 U.S. dollar billionaires.
The Rothschild gold and enameled egg was publicly displayed for the first time in October at a Christie's exhibition in Moscow. The 1902 piece, an engagement gift to Baron Edouard de Rothschild, has a clock and a diamond-set cockerel that pops up every hour and flaps its wings.
New Museum
"We bought this egg with our own money,'' said Ivanov. He paid a total of 8.98 million pounds after adding commission to the hammer price. "We didn't have investors, and this egg will go into the private museum which we are building in downtown Moscow. We will not resell it.''
The egg's price surpassed the $9.6 million for Faberge's Imperial Winter Egg, an Easter present from Czar Nicholas II to his mother in 1913, which sold at Christie's in New York in 2002.
It was not just the most expensive work of Russian decorative art, said Alexis de Tiesenhausen, head of Christie's Russian art department: It was the most expensive item ever sold at a Russian sale.
"Commercially, it is insane to pay more than 8 million pounds for this egg,'' said Andrei Ruzhnikov, a partner at Aurora Fine Art Investments, a fund owned by oil billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. While Ruzhnikov would not comment on whether he was the underbidder, he said: "There were only two bidders. It was the same old faces. There was no one new bidding.''
Founded in St. Petersburg in 1842 by Gustav Faberge, a goldsmith of French descent, the House of Faberge became Russia's largest and most prestigious jewelry maker under his son, Carl, who took over the business in 1872.
From 1885 to 1916 the company made 50 Easter Eggs for the Imperial family. It also made eggs for wealthy non-royal clients and these have previously commanded lower values at auction.
"Crazy Price"
"It's a crazy price but it's of immaculate quality,'' said Sarah Faberge, a great-granddaughter of Carl Faberge. "Faberge has always been something for royalty and now there is a new Russian royalty that is looking back to its cultural heritage.''
The Rothschild egg was previously unknown to scholars because the Faberge company archives did not survive. After seizing power in 1917, the Bolsheviks confiscated the archives of all jewelry companies in Russia to get the addresses of rich people. The Rothschild family kept the egg at a private residence, and never publicly displayed it.
To contact the reporter on this story: John Varoli at jvaroli@gmail.com
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&refer=&sid=aKbQV1ZgI44A
* Ed. note: Actual amount with surcharges £8,98 = $18,5 = €12,5 million
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