The pearl-colored ground of the shell is covered with white enamel in alternating transparent and opaque layers each painted and engraved separately to resemble frost, the result is the icy opalescence of a winter morning.

The egg, without support, lies on its side and opens in half along the greater perimeter, on the edges there is a row of beads.

It lacks the realism of the Winter Egg which, however, shares the inspiration and technique in the execution of the hinges inside the jagged edges.

Franz Birbaum, Fabergé's head workmaster, recalls that Emanuel Nobel "was so generous in his presents that at times it seemed that this was his chief occupation and delight.

A. Anatra, who subsequently sold it to Jacques Zolotnitzky, of A La Vieille Russie, in Paris.