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‘Red Notice': Are Cleopatra’s Eggs a Real Artifact?
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thewrap.comfamous Easter eggs in history, some of which remain missing. In 1885, Czar Alexander III commissioned Peter Carl Fabergé, a skilled goldsmith, to craft a gift for his own wife.
Instead of creating fancy jewelry, Fabergé crafted a white enameled egg that was about two-and-a-half inches tall, which twisted apart to reveal a golden yolk.
Inside the yolk was a golden hen sitting on golden straw, and within the hen was a tiny diamond crown that held an even smaller ruby pendant.Fabergé’s creation was the first of what was eventually 50 that were commissioned by the Romanov family’s two final czars: Alexander III and, Nicholas II after him.
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