A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1896

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A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1896
Ovoid, centring an oval panel depicting Christ the Savior, after a painting by Viktor Vasnetsov, the Christ raising his right hand in benediction and holding Gospels in left hand, with gilt halo, on gilt throne, gilt arched doorways in the background, the reverse painted with ox blood red and gilt cross on cream ground, the sides decorated with vari-coloured scrolling foliage centring circular reserves with crosses, unmarked
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

An identical egg, held at the State Hermitage Museum, is illustrated in N. B. von Wolf (ed. V.V. Znamenov), Imperatorskii Farforovyi Zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, p. 673. For another identical egg, see T. Kudriavtseva and H. Whitbeck, Russian Imperial Easter Eggs, London, 2001, p. 225.

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