{"id":24258,"date":"2025-10-21T22:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/faberges-imperial-frost-alma-pihls-winter-egg-reborn-at-christies\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:56:19","slug":"faberges-imperial-frost-alma-pihls-winter-egg-reborn-at-christies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/en\/faberges-imperial-frost-alma-pihls-winter-egg-reborn-at-christies\/","title":{"rendered":"Faberg\u00e9&#8217;s Imperial Frost: Alma Pihl&#8217;s Winter Egg Reborn at Christie&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A century after enchanting the Romanov court, Faberg\u00e9&#8217;s Winter Egg, a masterpiece by Alma Theresia Pihl, is poised to re-emerge in the spotlight of auction. On December 2, 2025, Christie&#8217;s London will offer this legendary piece for sale, considered one of the most poetic and refined ever to emerge from the imperial workshops of Saint Petersburg. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>An Imperial Gift for an Empress<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23401 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/storage\/2025\/10\/2007abbfdd14316f38a519df108b01c3-ljpg-800x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2007abbfdd14316f38a519df108b01c3-ljpg-800x1024.webp 800w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2007abbfdd14316f38a519df108b01c3-ljpg-234x300.webp 234w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2007abbfdd14316f38a519df108b01c3-ljpg-768x983.webp 768w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2007abbfdd14316f38a519df108b01c3-ljpg-610x781.webp 610w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2007abbfdd14316f38a519df108b01c3-ljpg-980x1254.webp 980w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2007abbfdd14316f38a519df108b01c3-ljpg-480x614.webp 480w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2007abbfdd14316f38a519df108b01c3-ljpg.webp 1072w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1913, on the occasion of the Romanov dynasty&#8217;s tercentenary, Tsar Nicholas II commissioned Faberg\u00e9 to create an egg of icy beauty for his mother, Empress Maria Feodorovna. The \u201cWinter Egg\u201d was designed to embody the fragile magic of the Russian winter \u2014 that suspended moment when nature seems frozen before rebirth. <\/p>\n<p>Its price, 24,600 rubles, made it one of the most expensive imperial eggs ever created. But it is primarily its design, entirely dedicated to light, that distinguishes it: a mineral poem where every detail reflects the perfection of craftsmanship and the intelligence of the material. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>The Architecture of Frost<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23404 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/storage\/2025\/10\/egg-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/egg-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/egg-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/egg-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/egg-610x407.webp 610w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/egg-980x653.webp 980w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/egg-480x320.webp 480w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/egg.webp 1026w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Crafted from rock crystal, platinum, and rose-cut diamonds, the Winter Egg evokes the first frost patterns on a windowpane in the early morning. It is believed to have been inspired by Russia&#8217;s harshest winter in 25 years, in 1911-1912 (-35\u00b0C in St. Petersburg). <\/p>\n<p>Its translucent surface is engraved with frost motifs, punctuated by sparkling crystals. The crystal base mimics a melting block of ice, where platinum settings unfurl like frozen streams. <\/p>\n<p>Inside, a platinum and diamond basket is hidden, filled with anemones sculpted from white quartz, their leaves of nephrite, and their pistils of demantoid garnet.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the piece contains over 3,200 diamonds \u2014 but the essence lies elsewhere: in this alchemy between cold and bloom, where winter becomes a promise of life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Alma Pihl, the Woman Behind the Miracle<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23397 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/storage\/2025\/10\/telechargement-169x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/telechargement-169x300.webp 169w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/telechargement-578x1024.webp 578w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/telechargement-610x1081.webp 610w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/telechargement-480x851.webp 480w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/telechargement.webp 684w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The soul of the \u201cWinter Egg\u201d bears a name that history long kept in the shadows: Alma Theresia Pihl.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1888 into a dynasty of Finnish goldsmiths, daughter of Knut Oscar Pihl and Fanny Florentina Holmstr\u00f6m, Alma grew up in a world of art and meticulous craftsmanship. Her uncle, Albert Holmstr\u00f6m, then managed one of Faberg\u00e9&#8217;s main workshops in Saint Petersburg. <\/p>\n<p>It was with him that she began her career:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAlma Pihl began working with her uncle, drawing ornaments for the design department\u2019s archives,\u201d writes Tatiana Faberg\u00e9 in Faberg\u00e9: A Comprehensive Reference Book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She envisioned jewelry as winter landscapes: delicate, silent, luminous. Her creations: the Snowflake brooch, the Mosaic Egg, and the \u201cFrost\u201d pendants, bear witness to a fascination with crystals, light, and the rhythms of nature. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23417\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23417\" class=\"wp-image-23416 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/storage\/2025\/10\/Alma_Pihl-2e-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Alma Theresia Pihl-Klee's family in Helsinki in the 1940s. On the wall, one can see the carpet that inspired her idea for the \u201cMosaic Egg.\u201d\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Alma_Pihl-2e-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Alma_Pihl-2e-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Alma_Pihl-2e-610x404.jpg 610w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Alma_Pihl-2e-980x649.jpg 980w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Alma_Pihl-2e-480x318.jpg 480w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Alma_Pihl-2e.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alma Theresia Pihl-Klee&#8217;s family in Helsinki in the 1940s. On the wall, one can see the carpet that inspired her idea for the \u201cMosaic Egg.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is said that she found her inspiration by observing, every morning, the ice patterns on her workshop window. These ephemeral designs became sketches under her pencil, then wonders of goldsmithing. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>A Destiny Between Exile and Rediscovery<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the 1917 Revolution, the \u201cWinter Egg\u201d was confiscated by the Soviet government, along with other court treasures.<\/p>\n<p>It then passed through several hands: a London antique dealer, British collectors, before disappearing for nearly twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>When it reappeared in 1994 at a Christie&#8217;s sale in Geneva, the art world held its breath. The egg then fetched 7.3 million Swiss francs, an absolute record for a Faberg\u00e9 work. <\/p>\n<p>In 2002, another sale in New York brought the price to $9.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Today, it returns to the market for the third time, estimated at over \u00a320 million. With only nine imperial eggs still in private hands, this event is more than just a sale: it is a reappearance, almost a resurrection. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>The Legacy of a Visionary<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cWinter Egg\u201d embodies the perfect union between the rigor of the North and the grace of the feminine hand.<\/p>\n<p>Alma Pihl, through her intuition and sense of light, managed to crystallize the ephemeral.<\/p>\n<p>In her works, nature is not frozen: it breathes, transforms, and is reborn.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23420\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23420\" class=\"wp-image-23419 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/storage\/2025\/10\/Snow-flake_Brooch_Alma_Pihl-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"Brooch Alma Theresia Pihl designed this brooch in platinum, diamonds, demantoid garnets, rubies, emeralds, topazes, other precious stones, and pearls, delicately set in a platinum mounting. It recalls the \u201cImperial Mosaic Easter Egg\u201d of 1914.\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Snow-flake_Brooch_Alma_Pihl-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Snow-flake_Brooch_Alma_Pihl-1024x979.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Snow-flake_Brooch_Alma_Pihl-768x734.jpg 768w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Snow-flake_Brooch_Alma_Pihl-1536x1469.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Snow-flake_Brooch_Alma_Pihl-2048x1958.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Snow-flake_Brooch_Alma_Pihl-610x583.jpg 610w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Snow-flake_Brooch_Alma_Pihl-1080x1033.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Snow-flake_Brooch_Alma_Pihl-1280x1224.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Snow-flake_Brooch_Alma_Pihl-980x937.jpg 980w, https:\/\/new.igorcarlfaberge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Snow-flake_Brooch_Alma_Pihl-480x459.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brooch Alma Theresia Pihl designed this brooch in platinum, diamonds, demantoid garnets, rubies, emeralds, topazes, other precious stones, and pearls, delicately set in a platinum mounting. It recalls the Imperial Mosaic Easter Egg of 1914.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHer original ideas soon earned her recognition as a true designer in her own right within Faberg\u00e9\u2019s main team,\u201d Tatiana Faberg\u00e9 further wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Winter Egg, beyond its brilliance, is a metaphor: that of a vanished world, frozen in crystal and memory, but revived by the timeless beauty of a female artist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Christie\u2019s &#8211; Faberg\u00e9 Sale, December 2025<\/p>\n<p>Imperial \u201cWinter Egg\u201d &#8211; Alma Theresia Pihl, Faberg\u00e9, 1913<\/p>\n<p>Materials: rock crystal, platinum, diamonds, quartz, nephrite, demantoid garnet<\/p>\n<p>Estimate: \u00a320-25 million (22-27 million Swiss Francs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A century after enchanting the Romanov court, Faberg\u00e9&#8217;s Winter Egg, a masterpiece by Alma Theresia Pihl, is poised to re-emerge in the spotlight of auction. 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