Faberge Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

The purpose of this charming book is to take readers on a visual treasure hunt, letting them explore Peter Carl Faberge's imperial Easter gifts -- to feel the cool, self-assured enamel surfaces, to scrutinize the intricacies of the delicate metalwork, to count the rose-cut diamonds or cabochon rubies or seed pearls scattered like grace notes across the rounded, substantial forms. The works illustrated are drawn from the largest and best-known collection of Faberge and related Russian decorative arts outside Russia. Exciting new photographs bring to life some of the easily missed design details orchestrated by Faberge and his workers into such memorable objects of desire.Curry, David P. is the author of 'Faberge Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' with ISBN 9780917046407 and ISBN 0917046404.