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LATE 19TH CENTURY
Details
A Berlin gilt-metal mounted Easter-egg
Late 19th Century
Painted with a view of the Berliner Domes with part of a bridge in the foreground within an oval gilt line panel with gilt scrolls and flowerheads, the upper part with a blue-scale pattern border edged with gilt berried foliage, the stopper formed as a gilt and white crown surmounted by a blue orb and gilt cross
4 in. (10 cm.) high overall
Late 19th Century
Painted with a view of the Berliner Domes with part of a bridge in the foreground within an oval gilt line panel with gilt scrolls and flowerheads, the upper part with a blue-scale pattern border edged with gilt berried foliage, the stopper formed as a gilt and white crown surmounted by a blue orb and gilt cross
4 in. (10 cm.) high overall
Provenance
Rohloff Collection
Literature
Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, op. cit. (Munich 1987), Vol. II, fig. 655.
Special notice
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