Faberge Crystal Pinecone Bowl with Original Box. Signature etched into rim. 

Condition: Excellent. 

Size: 9 1/2 x 9 x 7 in. 

The House of Fabergé was a jewellery firm founded in 1842 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, by Gustav Fabergé, usually known simply as Fabergé. The firm achieved its greatest prominence when designing elaborate jewel-encrusted Fabergé eggs for Russian emperors, and was beloved for a range of other work of high quality and intricate detail. By the time Gustav died the company was famous throughout Europe and catered to the crowned heads of many countries, and his sons and grandsons followed him in running the business until the October Revolution in 1917. After nationalization Gustav’s son Peter Carl escaped to Lausanne, Switzerland, where he died from illness in 1920, and his sons Alexander and Eugene reestablished the company as Fabergé & Cie in Paris, France in 1924. In 1951 rights to the Fabergé brand name for the marketing of perfume were bought by Samuel Rubin, who called his company Fabergé Inc. and eventually sold it to cosmetics firm Rayette Inc. in 1964, which changed its name to Rayette-Fabergé Inc. As the brand was resold more times, companies using the Fabergé name launched clothing lines, the cologne Brut (which became the best-selling cologne at the time), the perfume Babe, hair products, and also undertook film production. Their eggs gained renewed attention from inclusion in the James Bond film “Octopussy” and a touring exhibition throughout the late 1980s and 90s about the history of Tsars. In 2009 a Fabergé museum was opened by Alexander Ivanov in Baden-Baden, Germany, housing a very large collection of some 1,500 items including the Karelian Birch egg and the Constellation egg. The Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg opened in the eponymous city in Russia in 2013, and contains over 4,000 items including gold and silver, porcelain, bronze, paintings, and other cultural artifacts from pre-Revolutionary times, including nine Imperial Easter eggs created for the last two Russian Tsars. Today, the brand is owned by a company called Fabergé Limited based in London, England which separated from the multinational conglomerate Unilever in 2007, and is used solely to craft jewelry items and gemstones.

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