A $26 million Fabergé egg is about to break records

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00:00After a brutal news cycle, we're ending with something shinier. Literally, take a look.

00:07Meet Winter Egg. It's a rare crystal and diamond Fabergé masterpiece, one of only seven left in

00:14private hands, and it's hitting the auction block in London next week. This little four-inch egg

00:20is carved out of rock crystal, wrapped in platinum snowflakes, and encrusted with, get this,

00:25more than 4,500 diamonds. Wow. Inside, handled with care, by the way, a tiny basket of jeweled

00:33quartz flowers, because even the Romanovs loved a surprise. Christie's calls it the Mona Lisa

00:38of decorative arts. Commissioned in 1913 by Tsar Nicholas II as an Easter gift for his mother,

00:45the egg vanished for decades, resurfaced in the 1990s, broke price records twice,

00:51and is now expected to fetch, get this, more than $26 million. Bidding starts on Tuesday.