Faberge Egg facts

Thursday, June 26, 1997 | 11:48 a.m.

Here are some of the earliest and most treasured of the Faberge Eggs as provided by The Faberge Experience website by Bruce R. Schulman:

* 1887: Resurrection Egg. Height: 3 7/8 inches. A clear rock crystal egg with pearls, rose diamonds and eight brilliant cut diamonds. Featured inside is Christ rising from his tomb flanked by two angels.

* 1890: Spring Flowers Egg. Height: 3 1/2 inches. A Louis XV-style egg with a gold engraved shell and a rococo-style golden cage. A band of rose diamonds encircles the egg.

* 1891: The Danish Palaces Egg. Height: 4 inches. Description: Translucent pink enamel with a star sapphire, diamonds, emeralds and gold leaf. Inside is a screen of miniature Danish palaces.

* 1894: Renaissance Egg. Height: 5 1/4 inches. It is inspired by a jeweled casket in Dresden, Germany. Description: A gold and enameled egg with white and red enameled gold bands and decorated with rubies and rose diamonds.

* 1897: The Coronation Egg. Height: 5 inches. Description: Translucent yellow enamel with a gold field of starbursts. Inside is a gold, platinum and rock crystal coronation coach.

* 1898: Lilies of the Valley Egg. Height: 5 5/16 inches. One of only two eggs in Art Nouveau style. Description: A golden egg in pink enamel and covered in pearls.

* 1900: The Trans-Siberian Railway Egg. Height: 10 3/4 inches. Description: Green enameled gold with a silver engraved map of the railway's route from St. Petersburg to Vladivostock.

* 1903: Peter the Great Egg. Height: 4 inches. It honors the bicentennial of St. Pettersburg. Description: Gold rococo-style egg with diamonds, rubies and a miniature gold statue of Peter the Great on a horse.

* 1912: The Czarevich Egg. Height: 4 inches. Description: A Louis XV-style egg fashioned in lapis lazuli and ornamented in gold. Large diamonds on top and bottom.