Apple Blossom (Fabergé egg)

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Apple Blossom Fabergé egg
Year delivered	1901
Customer	Alexander Kelch
Recipient	Barbara Kelch-Bazanova
Current owner
Individual or institution	State of Liechtenstein
Year of acquisition	2010
Design and materials
Workmaster	Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin
Materials used	nephrite, green and red gold, silver, pink and white enamel, diamonds, lined with velvet
Height	115 millimetres (4.5 in)
Width	140 millimetres (5.5 in)
Surprise	Lost

The Apple Blossom egg, also known as the Jade Chest egg, is a Fabergé egg created in the workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé for the wealthy Russian industrialist Alexander Kelch who presented it to his wife as an Easter gift in 1901. Because it was not a gift from a Russian tsar to a tsarina, it is not considered an "imperial" Fabergé egg but rather, in this instance, is called one of the "Kelch" eggs. It is one of the largest such eggs ever created in Fabergé's workshop.^{[citation needed]} It is also one of the very few Fabergé eggs which lies on its side rather than upright.

In November 1996 a man named Adulph Peter Goop, an art collector from Liechtenstein, purchased the egg at a Sotheby's auction. Then, in 2010, shortly before his death, Goop bequeathed the egg to the State of Liechtenstein which now holds the egg at its Liechtensteinisches Landesmuseum in the city of Vaduz.^{[citation needed]}

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