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PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART III
A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1880-1890S
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A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1880-1890s
Ovoid, centring an oval reserve depicting Saint Michael of Kiev in a landscape, depicted full-length, probably after a design by I. Bilibin, within a gilt border with varicolour foliate bands, the reverse painted with a brown cross on light blue ground, the front reserve inscribed in Russian 'Sv. Mitrop. Mikhail', unmarked
4¼ in (11 cm.) high
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1880-1890s
Ovoid, centring an oval reserve depicting Saint Michael of Kiev in a landscape, depicted full-length, probably after a design by I. Bilibin, within a gilt border with varicolour foliate bands, the reverse painted with a brown cross on light blue ground, the front reserve inscribed in Russian 'Sv. Mitrop. Mikhail', unmarked
4¼ in (11 cm.) high
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