Twelve Monograms (Fabergé egg)

The Twelve Monograms Egg, given by Nicholas II to his widowed mother, Maria Feodorovna, at Easter 1896. Bands of diamonds divide the deep blue enamel into six panels decorated with the imperial crown and the monograms of Maria Feodorovna and Alexander III. Its surprise, recorded on the invoice as six portraits of Alexander III with ten sapphires, is lost. It is in the Marjorie Merriweather Post collection at Hillwood in Washington, DC.