Pelican (Fabergé egg)

The Pelican Egg of 1898, from Nicholas II to his mother, Maria Feodorovna, in engraved red gold topped by a pelican with spread wings. The egg is itself the surprise: it unfolds into a screen of eight ivory miniatures by Johannes Zehngraf, each showing a charitable institution, seven in St. Petersburg and one in Moscow, founded between 1764 and 1894. It is at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.