
Third Imperial Easter Egg
1886-1887, delivered for Orthodox Easter 1887 · Gold
Private collection, owner not named

1886-1887, delivered for Orthodox Easter 1887 · Gold
Private collection, owner not named

Objects range from the first century BC to about 1640 · Enamelled gold
London Museum

Mined in India, probably at the Kollur workings in the... · Type IIb boron-bearing diamond
Smithsonian Institution

Nineteenth century. Metropolitan Museum: probably ca. · Gold
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gallery 556

1894 to 1895, Odessa. Sold as third to second century BCE · Gold sheet
Musee du Louvre, Paris, Departement des Antiquites grecques...

Sources vary within a c. 1390-1410 window: Google Arts &... · Gold
British Museum, London, Room 2A

16th century · Gold
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1590-1620 · Gold
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Jewellery Gallery

c. 550-450 BCE, Achaemenid-period Lydia · Gold
Usak Museum of Archaeology, Usak, Turkey

Late 7th to early 8th century AD · Cast and gilt silver with individually made...
National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology, Kildare Street...

1902 · Gold
State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

1540-1543 · Gold
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Kunstkammer, Room XXIX
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