Heart of Louisiana Egg

Theo Fabergé has created this Egg in a spirit of rebirth for the much-loved city of New Orleans following the disaster of Hurricane Katrina.

A hand-engine-turned piece in sterling silver, guilloché-enamelled in the State’s own toned purple livery. The Egg is adorned with the silhouette of the Saint Louis Cathedral to the fore and to the reverse, the State Seal – both crafted in silver and 18 kt gold.

Stylised Louisiana fleurs-de-lis intersperse the Fabergé swags on the lower section. The base is hand-spun and engine-turned, in silver and 18 kt gold. Open the Egg to reveal General Andrew Jackson mounted proudly on his war-horse, a representation of the statue in New Orleans’s Jackson Square. “The Hero of New Orleans” from the War of 1812, symbolically poised to ride to the rescue yet again.