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Aleksandra Mir
Fabergé Egg
felt-tipped pen on chicken eggshell with metal stand
6.7 x 5.3 x 5.3 cm (2 5/8 x 2 1/8 x 2 1/8 in.)
Executed in 2004.
Full-Cataloguing
"These proletarian Fabergé eggs are basically just a set of blown-out chicken and ostrich eggshells with sloppy marker drawings and stands. They came out of my working with maps and the notion that ostrich eggs had historically been used as canvases for maps of the globe" Aleksandra Mir