The tabletop “Four Girls” was made of Orsk jasper at the “Russkiye Samotsvety” (Russian Gemstones) factory in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The exact date of its creation is unknown, but in 1981 it was presented at the exhibition “Russkiye Samotsvety” in Sverdlovsk, modern Yekaterinburg. The tabletop became part of the Museum of Stone-Cutting and Jewelry Art collection in 1997.

To Denisova herself, the figures on the tabletop resembled “Greek maidens in togas, the folds of which fall in a magnificent cascade”. But the masters and the museum staff had another association: in the natural pattern of the stone, they saw the outlines of girls wearing traditional Russian sarafans (sundresses) and kokoshniks (headdresses).

The tabletop is not entirely made of jasper: thin plates of stone were glued to the base made of another material. This technique was used for large items, which could not be cut from a solid block. Most often, for Russian mosaics masters used malachite, but sometimes they worked in this technique with jasper, agate, or other stones with a naturally formed pattern.

Orsk jasper is mined near Polkovnik Mountain, which is located on the outskirts of Orsk. The shades of this mineral are very diverse: there are about 250 different tones and patterns in total. Sometimes the patterns on the stone resemble forest landscapes, silhouettes of people and animals.