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The Jewellerian - Stories of JewelsAuthor: Josie Goodbody
Welcome to The Jewellerian, the podcast for those who love jewels and their stories; with me Josie Goodbody, jewellery historian and author of the Jemima Fox Jewellery mystery series, which have just been optioned for adaption to the screen. Language: en Genres: Arts, Fashion & Beauty Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Faberge: The Discovery of the Missing Imperial Egg
Episode 6
Wednesday, 8 December, 2021
In this final episode of my exclusive interview with Kieran McCarthy, director of Warstki and curator of Faberge in London: Romance to Revolution at the V&A Museum, we discuss the utterly extraordinary circumstances that led him to discover the long lost "Third Imperial Easter Egg" by Fabergé. It had originally been given by Tsar Alexander III to his wife, Tsarina Maria Feodorovna, for Easter in 1887. Kieran describes what is thought to have happened to the egg from the time it was confiscated and taken from the Imperial Cabinet by the Bolsheviks in 1917, to being acquired by Wartski for a private collector from the home of a scrap metal merchant in the USA in 2014. We also talk about the other two missing eggs that are thought to still exist and which are hidden/ lost somewhere. Listen to the end and you will hear us discuss the role Faberge had in the fall of the Romanovs. www.wartski.com www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/faberge www.josiegoodbody.com/podcasts www.instagram.com/josiegoodbody/?hl=en
