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Fabergé releases limited edition locket to celebrate Chinese New Year
By Michelle Johnson | 15 February 2018 | Lifestyle, Style
The Palais Tsarskove Selo Dog Locket is the newest pendant from the luxury jeweller
* The Palais Tsarskove Selo Dog Locket, new to Fabergé’s Heritage Collection, features an 18karat yellow gold egg encrusted with red guilloche enamel and round white diamonds
Best known for their iconic jewel-encrusted eggs, jewellery house Fabergé has never shied away from approaching their extravagant pieces with a pinch of fun and whimsy. And their latest locket in celebration of the Chinese Year of the Dog is no different, incorporating the brand's historic shape and refinement while hiding a sweet surprise inside its shell.
The Palais Tsarskove Selo Dog Locket, new to Fabergé's Heritage Collection, features an 18karat yellow gold egg encrusted with red guilloche enamel and round white diamonds. Opening up to reveal a golden dog with white diamond eyes, the 22mm locket is a cute and sumptuous item just in time for the new year.
The House of Fabergé, founded in St Petersburg, Russia in 1842, still draws inspiration from the stunning original gold and enamel Easter Eggs first commissioned by Tsar Alexander III for his wife, Empress Maria Fedorovna. The original eggs were gold with an enamelled "shell", which pulled apart to reveal a surprise sculpture inside. Not even the Tsar knew what Carl Fabergé would design inside the shell. >>
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* The Palais Tsarskove Selo Dog Locket, new to Fabergé’s Heritage Collection, features an 18karat yellow gold egg encrusted with red guilloche enamel and round white diamonds
The first, commissioned in 1885 and known as the 'Hen Egg', opened to reveal a gold yolk, which opened further to reveal a gold chicken. The chicken then came apart to reveal a replica imperial crown with a ruby egg suspended from it. These luxurious gifts formed the basis of the brand's designs, and even today the Heritage Collection includes lockets that contain stunning sculptures.
Combining the delicate art of hot enamelling, engine turned guilloche and hand-engraving, The Palais Tsarskove Selo Dog Locket is limited to 88 pieces and priced at £7,500. On a 50cm chain, the 22mm objet d'art is a stunning memento of the Year of the Dog as well as a perfectly elegant collectable.