 Each monogram appears six times, with Maria's monogram appearing on the top half of the egg and Alexander's appearing on the bottom.An allegedly-missing Fabergé egg known from its description as the Alexander III Portraits Egg was previously thought to be the Imperial Easter egg from 1895 in the Maria Feodorovna series.However, following the 2012 rediscovery of the 1887 Third Imperial Egg, which was announced to the world in March 2014, and the reassignment of the Blue Serpent Clock Egg as the 1895 Imperial Easter egg, it became clear that the "missing" Imperial Easter egg identified in the series as the Alexander III Portraits Egg must be the extant Twelve Monograms Egg of 1896.