Gilt-Metal Faberge-Style Egg, decorated with applied green enamel and faux-pearl flowersprays on a pink guilloche ground, trisected by vertical bands of paste gems and surmounted by an Imperial crown, on a conforming gilt-metal stand, h. 4in. dia. 2in. This is a copy of the "Lily of the Valley" egg presented by Nicholas II to his mother, Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna, in 1898, Illustrated