Christmas

Height :   8  cm
Chrystal Egg
Made in Saint Petersburg (Russia)

 

Contemporary egg line in the "style of Faberge".

THE COMPANY "MACGRAV"

 To regenerate the art of three-dimensional engraving in Russia - this is the task, which the best specialists of the Leningrad plant of fancy glass, the founders of the creative workshop "Macgrav" set themselves in 1991.
 All the works created by the artists and engravers of the firm follow the best Russian traditions of hand engraving: copies from works of the imperial glass plant masters, wines glasses and goblets with double-headed eagles, portraits made by the method of three-dimensional engraving and in half-tones, crystal sets with hunting themes, copies of icons on optical glass.
 But the main direction af the workshop is unique works on the artists which have been repeatedly awarded honored diplomas at the largest Russian and international glass exhibition.
 The creative workshop "Macgrav" is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of St.Petersburg and the Association "Folk Art and Crafts of St.Petersburg and Leningrad region".
 There are leading engravers:
 Vladimir Timofeev, Yuri Kolesnikov, Alexey, Yuri Smekalov

 

These Chrystal eggs are are cut with diamond in Saint Petersburg by one of the rare factories which produce today the splendid copies of works of Faberge
 
They are characterized by:

 

- a richness of illustrations engraved with acid,
- arabesques engraved with diamond grinding stone
- one or more lenses, cut in the mass, which make it possible to observe the scenes engraved by transparency with multiple angles (see photographs)

 

The photographs don't always reproduce very well the magnificence of this work that can be really appreciated only in front of one lighting (lamp or daylight)

 

An object that you will have really pleasure to look under all the seams and which will make the admiration of your guests