Peacock (Fabergé egg)

[1] It was made for Nicholas II of Russia, who presented the Fabergé egg to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, in 1908.

[1] The transparent egg is composed of rock crystal and gilt silver wire, and is quite simple in style.

The egg is held together by a clasp at the top, and when opened, falls into two halves, each with a rococo style mount.

[1] Semion Lvovich Dorofeiev, a Fabergé workmaster, reportedly worked on the peacock and its prototypes for three years.

[3] The Peacock Clock was housed in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, which is now the Hermitage Museum.