There’s been a spate of record-breaking public sale gross sales just lately and specialists at Christie’s in London suppose we may be about to see one other. A legendary Fabergé Imperial Egg, commissioned by Russian emperors to rejoice Easter, is one of many final left in personal fingers, and it’s now going up on the market for the primary time in twenty years. Christie’s estimates that this 1913 Winter Egg will fetch “in excess of” £20 million ($26 million) on December 2, which might not solely set an public sale document for a Fabergé egg — it might additionally obliterate the one the Winter Egg itself set in 2002. NCS’s Fiona Sinclair Scott visits Christie’s to be taught extra about this curio.