A SAINT PETERSBURG IMPERIAL FACTORY PORCELAIN EASTER EGG, gilt and painted in colours, with a frontal oval reserved with the Holy Shroud of Christ, (Saint Suaire), held by two winged angels and another Saint Petersburg Imperial Factory porcelain easter egg, the dark-blue-ground gilt with the crowned monogram of Tsarina Alexandra Fedorovna, late 18th Century
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A SAINT PETERSBURG IMPERIAL FACTORY PORCELAIN EASTER EGG, gilt and painted in colours, with a frontal oval reserved with the Holy Shroud of Christ, (Saint Suaire), held by two winged angels and another Saint Petersburg Imperial Factory porcelain easter egg, the dark-blue-ground gilt with the crowned monogram of Tsarina Alexandra Fedorovna, late 18th Century
9 - 10 cm high (2)
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See illustration of the Holy Shroud
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