Perchin, who made the earlier eggs, and Henrik Wigstrom, his foreign as-
sistant who succeeded him. An example is Perchin's Resurrection egg, a rock
crystal egg containing figures of Christ and angels mounted on a stand dec-
orated with enamel, pearls, and diamonds. It stands nearly 4 inches tall. Some
eggs contain a surprise. Perchin's golden-yellow diamond-encrusted Coro-
nation egg contains a miniature of the coronation coach, correct in every
detail, and his pink Lilies-of-the-Valley egg contains portraits of the tsar and
his two daughters. Carl Faberge, the firm's head, closed up shop and left
Russia at the time of the revolution, but his firm's work is still admired and
imitated today. Some of the more than fifty eggs have been lost, but many
of those remaining can be seen in the Kremlin or in various collections in
the United States and Europe.

Bird Alan. A History of Russian Painting. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987.

Gray Camilla. The Russian Experiment in Art 1863-1922. London: Thames and
Hudson, 1986.

Hamilton George Heard. The Art and Architecture Russia. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1983.

Hilton Alison. Russian Folk Art. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

McPhee John. The Ransom of Russian Art. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994.

Rice Tamara Talbot. A Concise History of Russian Art. New York: Frederick A.
Praeger, 1967.

The Internet at www.moma.org/online projects/internyet is a good source
for information on art today.

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